Power of Families Radio

Join Saren as she interviews her fabulous, and renowned mother on ways to instill positive character traits! 

n this episode, Saren shares three important ways that we can set our children up for strong friendships now and in the future. She shares specific and easy ways that you can help your children learn to:

• Resolve their own conflicts and repair problems that arise between them
• Bond with each other through working, playing and experiencing things together
• Support each other through knowing what is going on in each other's lives and being each other's greatest cheerleaders

In response to questions from readers, Saren offers concrete ideas for how we can work more effectively with children who are strong-willed, opinionated, and/or stubborn and who we clash with all too often. 

As a fellow struggler iwth this issue, Saren uses specific scenarios to explain the approaches and steps that can help us get on the same side as our child and work together to solve issues that arise.

In this fun episode from a couple years ago, Saren interviews her 9-year-old twins about their summer goals and about why goals and some “productive” activities are important during the summer.

Included in this episode:

• Ideas for specific goals and ideas for how to set goals in a variety of different areas
• How to keep from being bored during the summer
• What kids are required to do each day during the summer
• What fun activities kids are excited about doing during the summer
• A candid discussion about how they feel about the “must-do’s” and other things they do daily in the summer and share how they keep a positive attitude and stay motivated about doing the things they don’t always enjoy that are part of their summer responsibilites

Feel free to have your children join you in listening to this one!

Listen in as Saren is interviewed by the group "Family Looking Up" as they discuss ways to help prevent entitlement with our children.

Today we are bringing back a favorite episode to help you prepare for summer. Those long, lovely summer days can offer some of our family’s best memories, but how do we create a little more structure so that we can make the most of summer? How do we motivate our children to do some reading, get some exercise, and help out around the house rather than lazing around all day? How do we organize all the fun activities we would love to do in such a way that we really do a lot of them? How do make summer fun for the parents AND for the kids?

Saren and April (from Power of Moms) share detailed, tried-and-true ideas for summer learning and fun. We hope it fills your mind with fun do-able ideas that will work for you and your family!

Children of all ages often feel that they don’t have all the freedom they want and this can be manifest in tantrums and power struggles and teenage rebellion.

How do we decide what choices our children should have? How do we help them recognize the freedom they already have? How do we help them learn to make good choices?

In this episode, Saren and April discuss how and when to give our children the freedom and control they crave.

In this week’s episode, Saren interviews Stephanie Langford from Entrefamily.com about her amazing and budget-friendly around-the-world family travels and how every family can help their children become “citizens of the world.”

Saren spent a solid month visiting the 12 oldest National Parks in the west last summer (camping the whole way!). In this week’s episode, Saren shares how this all came about and what her family gained through this wild and wonderful adventure.

The principles offered apply to all families whether they’d like to do a big trip or simply spend a little more time outside together as a family.

Join Saren and her sister, Saydi, as they discuss wonderful ways to celebrate and discover with your family the real meaning of Easter.