Saren and her family spent a solid month on summer visiting the 12 oldest National Parks in the west (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.
Come listen as Saren shares two game-changing daily parenting practices that have made a huge difference for their family! These simple, daily practices can help dramatically change the mood in your home and the relationship with your children! For full show notes, please visit poweroffamilies.com
Join Saren and author Kristen Jensen as they discuss the importance - and better yet - strategies to porn-proof our kids.
In this episode, Saren interviews John Lanza, author of The Art of Allowance and founder of The Money Mammals, about how we can raise financially literate children. John talks about how we can teach toddlers to teens how to share, save and spend smart through everything from fun songs and stories to purposeful modeling of wise financial practices to regular discussions about needs and wants to providing kids with a regular allowance. For full show notes, please visit poweroffamilies.com...
At this time of year, it's so easy to get caught up in the letters to Santa, the hustle and bustle of getting gifts for our children, the parties, the events that we lose track of some of the most beautiful opportunities this season has to offer. In this episode, Saren reads three chapters from our eBook called A Deliberate Mother's Guide to Holidays, Vacations and Quality Family Time . The first chapter shared is about how to help children get excited about giving simple gifts to each family me...
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.
In this 25-minute episode, Saren and her sister Shawni (who runs the popular blog, 71 Toes ), discuss simple ways to help our children: Feel and express gratitude for every-day things that are easy to take for granted Focus on what they have rather than what they feel that they lack Work for what they get so that they will more fully appreciate it Learn about those who are less fortunate so they can see how blessed they are while developing compassion and understanding for others For full show n...
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 encore 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 o...
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
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 relationship with them. For full show notes, please visit www.poweroffamilies.com/13
Join Saren as she and Jane Clayson Johnson, an award winning journalist and author, discuss Jane's book Silent Souls Weeping about depression, anxiety, and how to help ourselves and our loved ones.
Join Saren and her mother, Linda Eyre, as they discuss how you can really give your children your full attention - and why this is so important!
If your children have recently gone back to school or your school year is about to begin, you’re probably going through some of the same things we’re going through. There are lots of emotions involved and new schedules to consider. Some of us are redefining ourselves as we enter a new stage of motherhood. Join Saren and April as they share their own “back to school” stories along with plenty of practical tips for making the transition work for the whole family. The conversation includes: how to ...
In this week's episode, Saren answers questions from our community concerning dealing with anxiety, saying yes and no to the right things, making the most of car time, and after school routines. Join us!
Join Saren and her sister, Saydi, as they discuss wonderful ways to celebrate and discover with your family the real meaning of Easter.
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. For full show notes, please visit poweroffamilies.com
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. For full show notes, please visit poweroffamilies.com
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?
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! For full show notes, please visit poweroffamilies.com...
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 sum...
In this week’s episode, Saren and April (director of our sister-site, Power of Moms) share some of the great responses we received plus talk through some ideas that have really helped pump up gratitude and tone down entitlement in their own families. For full show notes, please visit poweroffamilies.com
As our kids grow up, parenting can become more complicated - and more lonely. Where should we let go? Where should we hold on? How should we hold on? And who can we talk to about the challenging and sometimes heart-wrenching issues we're facing? In this week's epsisode, Saren and two of her dear friends, Tiffany Sowby and Allyson Reynolds, talk openly and honestly about the challenges involved in parenting teenagers and adult children. For full show notes, please visit poweroffamilies.com...
In this episode, Saren and Lynette Blood (Power of Families Social Media Manager) talk about how to balance the magic of elves and presents and Santa with meaningful discussions and activities that emphasize giving and celebrate the real meaning of Christmas. This episode is chock-full of ideas for traditions that celebrate both the magic and meaning of Christmas and bring the two together wherever possible. For full show notes, please visit poweroffamilies.com
Join Saren as she talks with her son Silas about screen time in the summer. For full show notes, please visit poweroffamilies.com
So many parents view screen time and technology as a stressful conundrum that they need to solve for their children. But it works better if we view it as an opportunity to teach our children discernment as we work with them to develop guidelines for healthy technology use. In this episode, Saren interviews Andrea Davis, founder of Better Screen Time, about how we can help our children learn to use technology in a positive and healthy way. For full show notes, please visit poweroffamilies.com...
In this week's encore episode, Saren interviews her sister Saydi about the simple, kid-friendly Christ-centered Easter activities she does with her family each year. Gathering ideas from many sources, Saydi has created a plan for how families can celebrate Christ's miracles, teachings, Atonement, death and resurrection in tangible and beautiful ways. Please visit poweroffamilies.com for full show notes.
Do you sometimes wonder whether you’re really making a difference? Do you see your dreams of doing big things fading away as you deal with all the little things that the little people around you need, day in and day out? In this audio post, Saren shares an “a-ah” moment that helped her to see that all those seemingly little things we do every day as moms add up to be really big and beautiful things in the end. For full show notes, please visit powerofmoms.com
There are so many things we want to do and be as parents and sometimes we can feel overwhelmed. So we decided to start issuing a really simple and super do-able weekly challenge at Power of Families. It's been wonderful to see so many parents participate in this easy way to work on one small aspect of our parenting at a time. In this week's episode, Saren talks about the effect the challenges have had on her and her family and shares experiences other members of our community have had as they've...
In this encore 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.” For full show notes, visit poweroffamilies.com
Join Saren and her two youngest sons as they discuss the creative schooling solutions they've come up with for this year. They've worked hard to find what will work best for her sons and best meet their needs. I think you'll be intrigued. For full show notes, please visit poweroffamilies.com
