Jan 30, 2018

When we begin with the end in mind, we have a much better chance of helping our family become all the wonderful things it can be. In this episode, April and Saren offer concrete ideas to help you:

• decide together who you want to be as a family
• come up with fun family mottos, mission statements, cheers, and/or songs to...

Jan 23, 2018

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...

Jan 16, 2018

Feeling overwhelmed by the stuff in your home?

In this episode, April and Saren offer practical tips for streamlining and organizing the toys, clothes, dishes and furnishings in our homes. They focus on ideas to help you:

• Make sure you've got the right things in your home (and get rid of the wrong things)
• Make those...

Jan 9, 2018

"Discipline" and "fun" may not seem like they belong in the same sentence. But they actually work very nicely together.

In this 20-minute episode, Saren and April share three fun and simple ideas for making discipline in your home more fun and more effective - at the same time!

Listen and learn about how an "angry hat,"...

Jan 2, 2018

Parenting teenagers is a whole new ball game!

Power of Families Founder, Saren, and her sister, Shawni, who runs the popular blog, 71 Toes, have three teenagers between them plus a couple of pre-teens. They share what they're learning about building and maintaining strong relationships with teenagers.