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Stress-free Holidays are Possible
Consider what your end goal for this holiday season is. Write it down, and start working backwards!
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What Saying “No” Means to Me
It’s exciting and empowering to discover that saying no doesn’t have to leave me feeling guilty, and saying yes doesn’t need to deplete me.
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Encore: How to Make a Family Travel Dream into Reality – Episode 177
Facebook0 Twitter0 Pinterest0 Evernote Print0 Email00total shares 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.” Show Notes Watch Stephanie speak at the Mom Conference October 11, 12, and 13th, 2016. Register for…
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Encore: 30 Days of Sex Talks – Episode 176
Facebook0 Twitter0 Pinterest0 Evernote Print1 Email34total sharesThis is one of the most uncomfortable parts of parenthood, right? Speaking with our children about intimacy, sexual relationships and other really personal topics such as how treating sexually transmitted diseases is usually simple if you do it on time. Well, it doesn’t have to be. Dina Alexander, from Educate…
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Passing on a Legacy of Wisdom
I was tucking my older daughter into bed when she said to me, “I wish I could have met Grandma Valentine.” I told her I wish she had too.
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Encore: Protecting Kids from the Me, Me, Me Epidemic – Episode 175
Facebook0 Twitter1 Pinterest0 Evernote Print1 Email35total sharesIn this week’s episode, Saren interviews our good friend Amy McCready about her book, The Me, Me, Me Epidemic. Amy shares three powerful tools from the “Un-Entitler Toolbox” included in her book and offers perspective on the underlying causes and solutions for entitlement. …
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The “Yes, I’d Love To!” Jar
“Was I being fake? I don’t think so. I think by choosing to act like I had energy, I actually started to feel energetic. Act the way you want to feel, not the other way around.”
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Which One Wins: Motherhood or Marriage? The Five Steps That Allowed Me to Succeed at Both
Ramona Zabriskie, author of Wife for Life, shares how transforming her marriage also transformed her motherhood and brought amazing results.
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How to Give Advice Your Teen Will Listen To
The purpose of the book was to share advice that would help my kids through their teen years. But even more, I wanted them to know how many great people loved and supported them.
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Survival Tips for the Before and After School Hours
We have a lot of great authors here at The Power of Moms, and three of them came through this week with a fantastic smorgasbord of ideas to help moms and families with their school year routines.
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Why I Woke Up My Son to Play a Computer Game
When I woke up 30 minutes before my alarm went off, I thought, “If I wake Spencer up right now, he could play the game for a little while before it’s time to leave.” Then came a little internal battle: Really? Do you EVER wake up a sleeping child so he can play a video…
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Electronics: What I Wish I’d Known About Teens and Devices
Parenting in the age of electronic devices is uncharted territory for many of us; however, setting up guidelines and rules from the start will help teenagers become responsible technology users.