Parenting Speaker Events

Need a qualified parenting speaker for your group?

Tina speaks for parents and professionals, covering these topics:

• -Ending tantrums: energy matching and its impact on behavior
• -Speaking so they listen: the effect of communication on the child’s body (huge)
• -Preschoolers’ behavior: what’s normal?
  -Kids with ADHD, ODD, OCD, autism, giftedness, or no diagnosis
  -Raising adopted children with joy: tackling attachment issues
• -Bedtime frustration, mealtime struggles, opposition to parental requests
  -Teens and individuation: setting reasonable limits, sharing responsibility
  -Providing ways to create successes for kids who have behavior needs.

This is information you have likely not heard before, that when applied, creates harmony in the adult/child relationship.  Ready for some harmony?  Call Tina today!

 Here’s what a parent had to say about Tina’s recent appearance:

“Thank you so much, Tina, for your insights and encouraging words last night at your presentation!  You offer so many concrete ideas on how to re-program your brain with parenting strategies that work.  Thank you for the gift that you are!”  -Yvonne

“This was one of the best two hours I have ever spent!”

“Thank you for positively reinforcing that I can do this and that my kids are fragile organisms.  I am the gardener.”

“I love the positiveness of this approach. We all work better when we feel loved and accepted.  Thank you for this approach and explanation.”

“This was great!  MORE PLEASE!”

“Thanks for helping me raise a wonderful child.”

“Wonderful – life-changing ~ thank you for HOPE.”

“THANK YOU SO MUCH” – over and over and over

Tina is a parenting speaker on a variety of topics, including:

Taming Facebook: How to Set Limits on Media and Encourage Other Activities
But He’s My Boyfriend! - Supporting Your Child’s Healthy Interactions with the Other Gender
Sex Education at Home: How Do I Talk to My Child?
School and Homework: Where’s the Line Between My Responsibility and My Child’s?
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Tina will be presenting on challenging child behavior at the following times and locations:

Transforming the Challenging Child: Present Moment Parenting , Thursday, February 16, 2012  6:30-8:30
Learning Rx, Rochester, MN

Transforming the Challenging Child: Present Moment Parenting, Sunday, February 26, 2012, 2:20 p.m.
“Not Our Kids” Conference for parents and professionals, Temple Israel, 2324 Emerson Ave., Minneapolis, MN  Register here.

Transforming the Challenging Child: Present Moment Parenting, Monday, February 27, 2012, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Mandala Montessori, for parents and staff, 3225 Minnehaha Parkway, Minneapolis, MN

Transforming Challenging Child Behavior, Saturday, March 3, 2012, 10 a.m.
Ensure Justice: Standing Together to End the Exploitation of Girls, Vanguard University, Costa Mesa, CA  Register here.

Bedtimes, Mealtimes, Homework: Help!  Thursday, March 8, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Century College, 3300 Century Ave. N., White Bear Lake, MN: continuing education presentations for counselors, social workers and parents
Register here.

These are the three biggest areas of concern for parents of kids with challenging behaviors, so we’ll focus specifically on resolving them, one by one.  Using Present Moment Parenting Techniques, participants will be able to take control of bedtime, mealtime, and homework by giving appropriate control to the children and supporting their success. You’ll leave the session with specific tools to apply immediately.

Transforming the Challenging Child: Present Moment Parenting, Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 12 noon
Staff training at Shriner’s Hospital, 2025 E. River Parkway, Minneapolis, MN

Transforming the Challenging Child: Present Moment Parenting – Sunday, April 1, 2012, 1-6 p.m.
St. Paul Jewish Community Center Parents’ Retreat, 1375 St. Paul Ave., St. Paul, MN

Transforming the Challenging Child: Present Moment Parenting – Friday, April 6, 2012
Love to Grow On Child Care – Staff and parent training

Why are Teens Like That? – Thursday, April 12, 2012, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Century College, 3300 Century Ave. N., White Bear Lake, MN: continuing education presentations for counselors, social workers and parents
Register here.

Struggling to understand where that sweet 12-year-old went, and who is this monster where she once was? Tina Feigal will lead you through the straight facts on teen brain development to help ease the stress of raising a an intense adolescent. You’ll learn specific ways of interacting that resolve the snide comments, lying, disrespect, and refusal to come to dinner.  Ready to bring out the best in your child?  Or even believe it’s in there? Attend this presentation to gain tools to use immediately, and to see results more quickly than you thought possible.

Transforming the Challenging Child: Present Moment Parenting – Thursday, April 19, 2012, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Waconia School District, Waconia, MN

When the Issue is the Environment – Monday, April 23, 2012, 10:15-12:15 a.m.
Minnesota Association for Children’s Mental Health www.MACMH.org – Duluth Entertainment and Conference Center, Duluth, MN

Transforming the Challenging Child: Present Moment Teaching – Friday and Saturday, April 27 and 28, 2012
UW-Stout Early Childhood Conference, Menomonie, WI

Facebook and Middleschoolers: What Power Do Parents Have? Thursday, May 10, 2012, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Century College, 3300 Century Ave. N., White Bear Lake, MN: continuing education presentations for counselors, social workers and parents
Register here.

Are you concerned because your child is staying up too late on Facebook, talking to friends about things you may not approve?  Or worse, do you think your child might be bullied or bullying others on Facebook?  It’s time to tame the Internet behemoth. This presentation will inform you about the controls you can put on Internet access, the ways to talk to your kids and let them talk to you, and how to make family decisions that stay made around the use of Facebook

Taming the Media: Who’s in Charge of Our Family? Thursday, June 21, 2012, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Century College, 3300 Century Ave. N., White Bear Lake, MN: continuing education presentations for counselors, social workers and parents
Register here.

“Just wait ‘til I finish this game! I’m not done yet!  One more level!”  Are you tired of “screens” taking control of your family life?  Is it time to restructure how they are used in your home, so you can regain the connection with your children?  Attend this session to learn how to discuss media with your kids when there’s no issue at hand, and how to get them to enforce the rules they set up!  You’ll find a lot more conversation, less resistance to helping with dinner, and a lot less crabbiness will be the results.  Are you in?

Disempowering Anxiety: Empowering Adult/Child Relationships, Thursday, July 12, 2012, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Century College, 3300 Century Ave. N., White Bear Lake, MN: continuing education presentations for counselors, social workers and parents
Register here.

Does anxiety need to “run the show” in the raising of a child who is saddled with it? No. This presentation will discuss the characteristics of anxiety-driven behavior and the physiological effects of anxiety on the child’s body.  Techniques to free children of anxiety in order to create a calm, cooperative atmosphere will be identified.  Elements of Present Moment Parenting will be used to help children and adults decrease anxiety and increase personal empowerment.