Power of Families Radio

Join Saren as she and Jane Clayson Johnson, an award winning journalist and author, discuss Jane's book Silent Souls Weeping discussing depression, anxiety, and how to help ourselves and our loved ones.

Join Saren and April Perry, Director of Power of Moms, for a 20-minute conversation where they share simple tried-and-true ideas for making one-on-one time with each child into a regular and meaningful part of the family routine.

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In this episode, Saren shares some experiences she’s had with one of those age-old parenting issues – getting kids to clean up their room. She also shares some helpful tips for figuring out when it may be time to “give up” or simply let up on certain things that we want our children to do as we respect their opinions and needs and build our relationships with them.

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When your child is running for office at school, looking for a job, or working a school assignment, how much do you help? If you have ideas about what they can and should do, how much do you try to talk them into things?  Are you OK with letting them fail sometimes? 

It can be so hard to know when to step in and when to step back!

In this episode, Saren and her sister Shawni (blogger at 71toes.com) share some personal stories and talk about how hard it can be to know when to help our kids or push them to do certain things and when to stand back. 

In this encore episode, Saren talks with Katie Kimball from Kitchen Stewardship about how what we eat, the way we talk about food, and the way we prepare food is such an important part of parenting.

Katie offers concrete ideas to help us really enjoy cooking alongside our children as we teach them responsibility, build their skills and self-confidence, and get them excited about healthy eating.

Join Saren, her mom, and her sisters for a wonderful discussion that all of us need!  Balance!  How do we take care of our marriages, our children, and ourselves?

Join Saren and Power of Families Social Media Manager, Lynette Blood, as they discuss the magic and meaning of Christmas and how to balance the important elements of Christmas.

Join Saren and her mother, Linda Eyre, as they discuss how you can really give your children your full attention.

Do you find Halloween to be fun? Stressful? Scary? Annoying? All of the above? How can you make Halloween really work for your family?

In this audio post, Saren reads her popular post, A Deliberate Mother’s Guide to Simple Halloween Fun, and shares some of the many many great comments with further ideas added by readers. The principles shared here apply to ALL holidays!

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Family fun doesn’t need to be about complicated decorations or wearing ourselves out with dozens of events. But with a little bit of planning and a deliberate-motherhood mindset, this fall is destined to be the best one yet!  For full show notes, please visit Poweroffamilies.com