End of Another School Year

As we approach the end of yet another school year, it's a great time to evaluate how our kids are doing and how we are doing as their parents!

We love approaching parenting deliberately, with purpose, pro-actively, and with a plan!

And we hope valuesparenting.com is helpful to you as you design your unique plan for your unique kids!

As we look through the member records, we are amazed how many valuesparenting.com loyalists have done Joy School but never gone through the 12 values of Alexander's Amazing Adventures.  This is a truly great program that gives kids the amazing legacy of really understanding values and the benefits of living them!  Give it a look--and remember that you can get the first unit on Honesty for free.

And pass the link on to your friends who have kids that might also benefit!

We are continuing to grow at valuseparenting.com and really love this world-wide fraternity of parents who care enough to use and contribute to the programs.

We invite you to keep up with us and stay in touch with us by using the links in the yellow box on the home page of valuesparenting.com.  Also, you can now get twenty or so of our books for free on EyresFreeBooks.com.

Have a great Summer!

Great Night Out for Moms in the SLC Area!

As you start the new year, we’d love to have you join us for a fun night out and a way to solidify your dreams for 2013 and beyond with several of the authors of the Power of Moms new book and Whitney Johnson creator of the popular blog Dare to Dream and author of a new book (seen in the link below). In addition, Macy Robison will entertain us with her inspiring music about motherhood. 

This will be held at a beautiful private room just South of Deseret Book at City Creek Mall on January 23rd. I’ll be there along with Saren, April and Whiney and a small group of deliberate mothers! Bring your friends and enjoy a fun retreat to rejuvenate and rejoice in the most important career in the world: Motherhood. We’d love to spend the evening with you! 

Check it out: http://powerofmoms.com/live-deliberately-dare-dream-do/

A New Book for Deliberate Mothers!

Wow, do we love seeing our children take the baton and run with it!  Our oldest daughter Saren Loosli and her co-guru April Perry have created an incredible website at PowerofMoms.com especially for deliberate mothers who are striving to thrive as well as survive their mothering experience. They have just launched a new book which is a collection of chapters from inspiring, yet down-to-earth fun and funny and actually quite astonishing deliberate mothers. Each mother, speaking from their own experience, addresses one of twelve "powers" that provide motherhood with more peace, purpose, order and joy.

Don't you just love the word deliberate?  Those babies are handed to us without an instruction manual and we sometimes get lost in our mothering efforts without a clear direction and constant inspiration. It's the hardest and most important job in the world! I have to say that they've come a long way since my first book, I Didn't Plan to be a Witch!

Even though they could have published this book in several major markets, they opted for an online service to save busy moms some money. The book is even on sale for a limited time. For more information and to order click here. We think you're going to love it!

A New Book for Deliberate Mothers!

Wow, do we love seeing our children take the baton and run with it!  Our oldest daughter Saren Loosli and her co-guru April Perry have created an incredible website at PowerofMoms.com especially for deliberate mothers who are striving to thrive as well as survive their mothering experience. They have just launched a new book which is a collection of inspiring, yet down-to-earth fun and funny and actually quite astonishing deliberate mothers. Each mother, speaking from their own experience, addresses one of twelve "powers" that provide motherhood with more peace, purpose, order and joy.

Don't you just love the word deliberate?  Those babies are handed to us without an instruction manual and we sometimes get lost in our mothering efforts without a clear direction and constant inspiration. It's the hardest and most important job in the world! I have to say that they've come a long way since my (Linda's) first book, I Didn't Plan to be a Witch!

Even though they could have published this book in several major markets, they opted for an online service to save busy moms some money. The book is even on sale for a limited time. For more information and to order click here. We think you're going to love it!

Prioritize Family

As we travel and speak to parents throughout the world, we strive to stay in touch with you and other parents who we have known and been in touch with for these many years.

We hope your families are doing well, and that you are continuing to prioritize the relationships of your life! And we want you to be excited with us about our goal of making all of our books free on line.

Please take a look at EyresFreeBooks.com and use the list and the books on it in any way you wish! We will be adding more books to those that are available (orange and clickable on the booklist) every couple of months!

We love you all as parents and grandparents and fellow-travelers who seek to prioritize family! Stay in touch by writing us anytime on the comment button at valuesparenting.com

Happy Graduation!

We hope all you Joy Schoolers have had a wonderful joyful year! We know many of you are about to have or have just had graduations! Congratulations! Here’s our granddaughter Elsie’s graduation in Hawaii. Aloooooha!

The Power of Moms “big hit” and Retreat

We are sometimes mystified by the power of the Internet.  Sometimes it seems no one is out there and then suddenly we learn what it means when someone says, "it went viral"!  As those of you who follow Deseret News Blogs know that our oldest daughter Saren and her dynamite mother friends power up the Motherhood Matters blog.  This sprang out of an organization that can be found at powerofmoms.com. It is a web site for deliberate mothers! Saren and her co-founder April Perry have created this website that enriches, comforts and inspires moms to be better, do better and get over it when they don't!

After Saren and April have worked tirelessly for about five years to make this website fly, suddenly one of April's articles "went viral".  It apparently touched a nerve amongst mothers because it generated ONE MILLION HITS!  If you want to take a look, click here. What a great gift to these amazing women for Mother's Day!

As of last weekend, Saren and April have completed 17 weekend retreats which is job training for mothers all over the United States. Last month they did two retreats in Australia!  Their readership covers the globe and they are thrilled to be part of this movement to train mothers not only for their hardest and best job, but also for their lifelong most-important career.

Last weekend Richard and I hosted a Power of Moms Mother's Day Retreat at our home. I must say that the power of deliberate mothers was bursting at the seams of our home in Park City.  On Friday we talked about specific ways moms can take care of themselves as well as some family systems that helps a home run more smoothly. On Saturday April gave instructions for keeping your mind (and stuff) organized with a system she has created called Mind Organization for Moms.

We are sometimes mystified by the power of the Internet.  Sometimes it seems no one is out there and then suddenly we learn what it means when someone says, "it went viral"!  As those of you who follow Deseret News Blogs know that our oldest daughter Saren and her dynamite mother friends power up the Motherhood Matters blog.  This sprang out of an organization that can be found at powerofmoms.com. It is a web site for deliberate mothers! Saren and her co-founder April Perry have created this website that enriches, comforts and inspires moms to be better, do better and get over it when they don't!

After Saren and April have worked tirelessly for about five years to make this website fly, suddenly one of April's articles "went viral".  It apparently touched a nerve amongst mothers because it generated ONE MILLION HITS!  If you want to take a look, click here. What a great gift to these amazing women for Mother's Day!

As of last weekend, Saren and April have completed 17 weekend retreats which is job training for mothers all over the United States. Last month they did two retreats in Australia!  Their readership covers the globe and they are thrilled to be part of this movement to train mothers not only for their hardest and best job, but also for their lifelong most-important career.

Last weekend Richard and I hosted a Power of Moms Mother's Day Retreat at our home. I must say that the power of deliberate mothers was bursting at the seams of our home in Park City.  On Friday we talked about specific ways moms can take care of themselves as well as some family systems that helps a home run more smoothly. On Saturday April gave instructions for keeping your mind (and stuff) organized with a system she has created called Mind Organization for Moms.

One of the best things about these retreats is being able to break up into small groups so that moms can help each other with specific problems and needs at home. Every mother brought her own gifts and powers. Comments, questions and suggestions from those present always makes us realize that they could do their own retreat....many of whom are! It was a gorgeous day so some of the groups were able to meet outside.

We were all moved by Macy Robison who is a extraordinary talent with a gorgeous voice and a special talent for touching and lifting up mother's hearts. She has produced her own delightful CD called Children Will Listen which you can access here.

The Big Daddy really enjoyed himself too! He, of course added so much to the retreat as a thorn among the roses!

Snacks and a lovely lunch were served to keep our brain power at maximum power!

All retreat management was capably handled by the Tiffany Sowby who is truly incredible in her organizational abilities!

 

After a long and thought provoking day of mother training, about a dozen brilliant women who serve on the Power of Moms board stayed on and were able to put their heads together during an evening dinner/meeting where they brainstormed about how to help the website run better and reach more mothers. April is a computer guru and managed to get several board members across the country and even Japan hooked in via Google+ and a conference call.

Since there is basically no instruction manual for mothers to enable them to be the best they can be, The Power of Moms is looking to create something that will power up those who are working in the most important job in the world. They'd love have a million members!  To be one of those excellent moms go to powerofmoms.com.