Speaking
Topics about Parenting
"Patience supports a healthy home. It eliminates the 'me' sickness, the Old Yellers and Houdinis and Dr. Jekylls who can't see past their own needs and problems in order to create solutions. Imagine a home where everyone honors and helps one another — and loves it! You can have that."
~ Christine Hierlmaier Nelson
I speak about parenting: understanding and guiding the different temperaments and needs in your family. I speak about how to balance the needs of family members with larger values like service, forgiveness and partnership.
Mostly I speak about patience and how to build team family in a society that celebrates independence, personal achievement and instant gratification. When families are healthy, society is healthy.
Featured Topics:
Patience and Responsibility
Christine works with other parents and child care providers to recognize their common stress reactions, practice new coping behaviors, and communicate more effectively with their children. Develop a team approach to responsibility that will reduce the chaos and build patience skills for all ages and family types.
Acting Out
This presentation helps you recognize the signs of acting out and getting to the bottom of why good kids suddenly act bad. Avoid common mistakes when dealing with bad behavior.
The Three-Legged Stool
Christine discusses the role of parent, childcare provider and teacher in shaping the future values and skills of today's child. Collaboration and communication techniques are emphasized to ensure patience on all sides and success with delayed gratification, responsibility and confidence in the early years.
Do You Love Me?
How do you show love in your home? Christine presents on the many ways that family members can show love to one another and model it for their children. She explains the difference between love as a feeling and love as a choice — and why our confusion of the two often leads to conflict and loss of love.
Time Out for Mom and Dad
Where is it written that when the children arrive, the marriage is over? Christine talks about the ways that mom and dad can keep the home fires burning so no one is left out in the cold later.