Power of Families Radio
The Power of Families is an online community of purposeful parents working towards peace, order and joy in their personal lives and in their homes while helping their children develop the positive character traits and values that will bring them happiness and success in life.
- Update frequency
- every 17 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 57
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Moving from Entitlement to Gratitude
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 gratitu…
Getting Real about Parenting Teens and Adults
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 …
Balancing the Magic and Meaning of Christmas- Episode 54
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 e…
Summer and Screens
Join Saren as she talks with her son Silas about screen time in the summer. For full show notes, please visit poweroffamilies.com
Creating a Tech-Healthy Family
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 discernm…
Celebrating the Real Meaning of Easter (Encore)
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…
Big Things are Made out of Little Things
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…
What Weekly Challenges Do For Us
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…
How to Make a Family Travel Dream into Reality
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 bec…
Creative Schooling Solutions
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 t…
The Key to Happiness
What do you think is the key to happiness? Could it be gratitude?
In this episode, Saren reads three popular posts on gratitude. Each post offers stories and concrete ideas to help you pump up the gr…
What Schooling is Right for Your Child?
What kind of schooling is right for our children? Public school? Charter school? Neighborhood school? Private school? Homeschool? There are so many choices these days!
In this popular episode from ou…
Meal Planning Tips
Feeding our families is one of the most basic things we do as parents. It can be stressful and haphazard - or it can be deliberate, efficient, and even joyful. Listen as Saren and Power of Moms Direc…
Simple Ways to Instill Positive Character Traits
Join Saren as she interviews her fabulous, and renowned mother on ways to instill positive character traits!
Helping Siblings Develop Strong Friendships
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…
Parenting Strong-Willed Children
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…
Summer Goals
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.
Inclu…
Preventing Entitlement
Listen in as Saren is interviewed by the group "Family Looking Up" as they discuss ways to help prevent entitlement with our children.
Making Summer Awesome
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…
Empowering Kids With Choices
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 childr…