We’ve compiled sample 3-minute speeches to help you communicate with parents and educate children. Learn how to deliver your message effectively and inspire your audience!

 

Topic – Early learning, kids are tough

Good morning, everyone.
Advance learning has become a necessity in the country.
It’s also the biggest mission parents have ever been given.
I want my kids to be ready to take the field when school starts by mastering the basics and setting up their own setups in advance.
These days, kids do everything in advance.
They start preparing for elementary school before they start elementary school, middle school before they start middle school, high school before they start high school, and the timing is getting earlier and earlier.
Learning what you’re going to learn next semester over the summer isn’t even a thing anymore.
Leading the craze is English.
There are so many myths about learning English, such as children who start learning English in the womb and start learning English as soon as they can walk.
Why is everyone studying early?
Isn’t this the generation that grew up with the baptism of early English education and early math learning?
So you’d think something would be different, but they don’t seem to be any better at English or math than the generation before them.
Why is that?
The biggest reason is that many people confuse being first with being good.
The arrogance that if they study ahead of time, they can do it before other kids.
But doing it first doesn’t make you better at it.
The biggest problem with studying ahead is that it keeps kids busy.
By trying to get ahead of the curve, they always have a long way to go.
With four hours a day to keep up with the school’s curriculum, kids have a very busy schedule.
They don’t have the time, let alone the energy, to read.
They’re too busy to enjoy reading.
I grew up being told countless times not to put off until tomorrow what I can do today, but I want to teach my kids today not to do today what they can do tomorrow.
I wish I could give them the gift of the right to only do what they need to do today.
I’m sure that would be the best thing for their emotional development and psychology.
Thank you for listening.

 

 

Topic – Adolescent children

Parents don’t know what to do when puberty hits.
We intuitively know that our child is going through puberty, but we don’t know what to do afterward.
I understand and know that my child is locking their doors, sighing frequently, and seeming depressed, but I’m still at a loss when it comes to trying to help.
I just don’t want my child to fall into bad thoughts, and I want them to get through this time safely.
You want to energize your anxious and depressed child’s daily routine, but you’re wary of doing so.
Your child’s life is busy.
You juggle school and tutoring, and when you get home, it’s 11 p.m. You want to try to talk to your child to help them with their worries, but you’re too tired.
It’s a tough time for both mind and body.
The adolescent brain is said to learn anything easily and quickly.
This is similar to the infant and toddler brain.
If you don’t have a good attachment with your parents as an infant or toddler, you may grow up to be emotionally insecure.
Children who are neglected or abused as infants are more likely to grow up to be socially maladjusted and become criminals.
Similarly, the same is true for adolescence.
You need to show your child that you’re thinking about their problems and worries, whether they want to or not.
This is a time when they are sensitive to bad stimuli and can get sick easily.
Exposure to alcohol, tobacco, drugs, or harmful games during this sensitive time will be more damaging than at any other time.
As is often the case with addiction, it’s easy to get hooked and really hard to recover.
With so much potential for development, the adolescent brain is simultaneously extremely vulnerable and dangerous.
Parents need to take great care to ensure that their adolescent children don’t fall into the trap of gaming addiction or become slaves to bad habits.
They should be encouraged to be considerate of others, think positively about themselves, and feel loved by friends and family.

 

 

Topic – The obesity epidemic

You can’t go to a social gathering without someone talking about losing weight.
Weight loss success stories are the number one topic of conversation, and the main character’s slimmed-down body is the object of admiration.
Now, more than ever, we’re hobbling around with thicker waists.
Nutrition has increased, but physical labor has decreased dramatically.
The average man walking the planet has gained about 10 pounds in the last 20 years.
And it’s only going to get bigger.
Obesity has gone beyond the individual to become a societal, national, and even global problem.
The societal costs of obesity are incalculable.
Obesity has become an important socioeconomic indicator.
A few years ago, the UK created a minister for obesity and declared war on overweight.
The war on obesity around the world is fierce and serious.
Not so long ago, obesity was the preserve of the haves.
Cartoons used to depict rich people with big bellies.
But now it’s the haves and have-nots that are getting pudgy.’
It’s the ‘obesity migration’.
It’s because we eat cheap meat and food and don’t exercise enough to get rid of the fat on our bodies.
Our obesity is almost entirely meat-based.
Fast food like burgers, fried chicken, and pizza are driving us into a carnivorous world.
The dazzlingly advanced breeding technology is, in other words, fattening technology.
Between 1984 and 1993, the number of fast food outlets doubled in the UK, and over the same period, adult obesity rates doubled.
This is the equivalent of ‘white terrorism’ for food, as fast food drowns out the inherent flavor of meat with sugar and sauces, and the sweetness drowns out all other flavors.
It’s really hard for poor people to lose weight.
They don’t have enough time to exercise, and they don’t have enough money to watch their diets or indulge in leisure activities.
They have to carry their weight around without much choice.
As they stumble around, doing menial jobs, their bulging bellies are something ‘special’ that has never been there before.
The Korean Youth Policy Research Center has published a study that shows that poor families have more obese children.
This is because families with higher incomes eat a balanced diet and exercise more, while those with lower incomes eat irregular meals and eat instant food such as ramen.
It’s very dangerous when you see a polarized society, when you see obese parents taking their obese children to fast food restaurants.
It’s a very sad illustration of the obesity epidemic.
Thank you, everyone, for listening.

 

 

Topic – Parental greed is the way to ruin a child’s life

Good morning, everyone.
Have you heard of designer babies?
Today I’m going to talk about something very interesting and a little bit scary.
Designer babies are a type of technology.
It’s best to think of it as pre-implantation genetic diagnosis.
The idea is that embryos are screened for traits and a selected one is implanted in the uterus.
Thousands of procedures to select the sex of a child have been performed over the years.
In February, a clinic led by Jeff Steinberg, a pioneer of IVF research in the 1970s, sparked a major controversy when it announced that it would offer services to choose a child’s hair and eye color.
Of course, they faced fierce opposition and eventually gave up after a month.
The idea of parents being able to determine their child’s traits has sparked a huge backlash, and many countries have banned such procedures by law.
Most people would agree that medicine should help men and women with genetic defects when they want to have healthy children.
But is it okay to choose a sex, or even better, to have a child born with double eyelids?
It’s probably a common wish of many parents that their child will be tall and strong.
What about selecting embryos with genes for excellent memory, high intelligence, or even personality if not intelligence?
It feels like the reality of personalized soldier-like humans is not far away.
The idea of choosing a child before birth, with expectations and dreams of perfection.
However, I don’t think this is far from us.
In Korea, elementary school students’ vacations are the busiest of all.
English school, math school, swimming school, Chinese school, piano school, taekwondo school, etc.
Reception is mandatory, sports and piano are optional.
And Chinese is a plus, since the future superpower will be China.
I hope you don’t be greedy and respect your children for who they are.
Don’t try to fit them into a mold or standard that you have set for them.
I want you to stop wanting your child to grow up the way you want them to grow up.
Treating your child as a person, not just as your child, and respecting them as a human being is the first step to being a good parent.
Thank you for listening.

 

 

Topic – Parental Greed

Gangnam and Gangbuk, only the last letter is wrong, but the feeling of distance is huge. Even within Seoul, Gangnam and Gangbuk are unbridgeable educational boundaries. Expectant parents choose where to live like they choose a brand of electronics. Just as they look for quality and fast service when buying a product, they will go to great lengths to become a Gangnam resident for their two children’s educational future. Education is the only way to avoid passing on poverty. Even if I can’t tutor, I hope that I will be able to raise the average if I’m with children who have good skills. I can’t just let my child go with the tide.
Gangbuk can’t just wander into Gangnam, but Gangnam can. There’s a new practice called reverse transfer, where a child keeps their home and school in Gangnam but goes to a middle school in Gangbuk, hoping to secure a favorable grade point average to get into a specialty high school. The parties slap their knees in admiration of their cleverness. Ordinary people can only laugh at them. Even Seoulites live like this.
If my child was a prodigy, I would feel like I had the world at my feet, but many of the prodigies announced were children with prior learning disabilities. Parents’ greed is endless. I have to think about whether my greed is good or bad for my child. Parental greed isn’t necessarily a bad thing, and it can be a great asset to society, but it’s important to remember that you shouldn’t try to dictate your child’s life.
Thank you for listening, everyone.

 

 

Topic – People like Steve Jobs

With the slogan “Think different,” Steve Jobs returned to the helm of Apple, the company he founded, and delivered a string of successes with the iPod, iPhone, and iPad.
In 2010, Apple’s iPhone captured 28% of the U.S. smartphone market with just one model, while other large companies in the U.S. had dozens of models and did not do as well as Apple.
The myth of Apple was realized because of Steve Jobs.
I wish we had someone like Steve Jobs in Korea.
The world is excited by the vision and creativity of one man.
In addition to Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, which started as a small project in a Harvard dormitory and created a new cultural phenomenon called social networking with more than 500 million people around the world in just a few years, and Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, have all fundamentally changed entire businesses around the world with their vision and creativity.
They also have something in common: they were all college dropouts.
According to a report by the Youth Policy Research Institute, Korean students spend an average of 7 hours and 50 minutes a day and an average of 50 hours a week studying.
They are studying almost every day.
‘Other people are doing it, so I’ll do it, I don’t want to fall behind, so I’ll do it first, and even if it’s hard, I’ll sit at the desk and struggle.’
Most of the students have been tutored at a cram school.
Because we spend so much time tutoring, we don’t really have time to reflect on what we’ve learned, and we end up knowing things half-assedly, and after 12 years of elementary and middle school, we lose our curiosity for knowledge.
We are short answer humans.
We turn into rote learning machines just to get one more point on the SATs.
‘Think different’ teaches us that thinking outside of the box and out of the box thinking makes a difference and can soon become valuable.
Isn’t the question of the day not how much time you spend in the academy, but who can make the most of their creativity?
Could there be someone like Jobs in our country who can change the future?

 

 

Topic – The importance of delivering the right message

Are kids scared or are they fearless?
The answer is both, and neither.
Kids have a different perspective than adults. Maybe it’s their age, maybe it’s their inexperience, but either way, it’s true that children see things differently than adults.
However, most parents’ reactions to a child who is afraid are similar.
You’re scolding your child for being afraid of something that, from an adult’s point of view, shouldn’t be a big deal.
The most common anxiety in children is a fear of specific objects.
Some kids are afraid of insects, while others are afraid of certain places, like elevators.
A common parental response to this fear, which affects one in six to seven children, sends a negative message to the child.
The child is either told that their parents are mean to them, or they are told that they are not good enough, and they become embarrassed.
Most parents would disagree with this statement.
You might say that you didn’t mean to hurt your child, that you just wanted him to grow up strong.
But that’s because you haven’t practiced putting yourself in your child’s shoes.
Let’s switch positions.
Imagine you’re in a situation where you’re extremely afraid of something.
You want to leave the room as soon as possible because you’re afraid, and the people around you are pointing fingers at you.
He or she is making a big deal about what you’re afraid of.
Would you be able to listen to them?
Do you think their words would allay your fears?
Chances are, your kids are feeling the same way.
While this is true in general conversations, it’s especially important to be clear about the message you want to convey when talking to children.
Kids don’t have the ability to fathom the meaning inherent in the messages you send them, nor do they have the mind-reading skills that allow them to see right through you.
That’s why parents need to be clear about the meaning they want to convey with their messages.
You also need to make sure your words match the intent you want to convey.
Again, kids don’t yet have the ability to analyze what’s behind your emotionally charged words.
If you, as a role model, use abusive and emotional language and behavior before they have the ability to do so, they will unfortunately copy you.
Treat your child with respect and say what you really want to say to them.
I hope that this short talk will help you to build stronger relationships with your children, and I’ll leave you with that.
Thank you.

 

 

Topic – Competing ideologies

Summer vacation is back.
‘Tis the season for part-time jobs.
Eyes lit up, click-click, click-click for an extra thousand won.
Whether you’re a high school student or a college student, Korea is a part-time job paradise.
Even my daughter, who is in college, shows up at the breakfast table with wide eyes.
She’s excited to tell me that she found a part-time job helping out at an accounting office.
6,000 won an hour, 9am start, 6pm finish.
“Don’t you know that power comes from money and independence comes from food?” she pouts when I nag her to study.
She’s from the financial crisis generation and the 880,000 won generation, so it makes sense.
“The other kids are clamoring for me to tell them I make 6,000 won an hour, but I’ll never tell them, because they’ll take my job.”
What a cool and sincere story.
I’ve heard about how sensitive he is over a single performance evaluation score on the TV, how he doesn’t show his notes to his friends, and how he keeps it a secret which hagwon he attends, but seeing the competition in his eyes takes my breath away.
How competition is internalized as a way of survival.
How the ideology of competition has eaten us up.
I am afraid of my daughter’s inner face.
The law of competition and survival, the way of “you die, I live.” from school.
With the creation of the grading system and the pecking order, competition became a way of life.
The strong triumphs over the right, but you can’t live without beating someone, without knocking someone down.
I’m going to have to think about how I’m going to raise my kids in this cutthroat life.
Thank you for listening.

 

 

Topic – Students in the system

I thought for a long time about what to say to a child who says he likes studying but hates tests.
She says she enjoys learning new things, but at the beginning of every semester, her teacher tells her in the first class that the grades will be based on a combination of points: 30 midterm, 30 final, 20 assignments, and 20 presentations.
She’s more curious about what she’ll learn and what assignments she’ll be given than how the grades will be distributed.
She says that none of the teachers address those questions and start the orientation by talking about grades.
At first, they were disappointed, but now they’ve come to expect it and accept it.
Studying is no longer seen as something fun, but as something you have to do.
After complaining about it for a while, she now says she hates tests.
She doesn’t like the competition between kids on tests, and she feels like she’s getting caught up in it.
I was bitter to hear her say that she hated lending out her notes and hated that mentality.
In a school that doesn’t teach you how to dream and doesn’t allow you to dream, all you’re left with is fierce competition.
So my daughter, at the age when she should be shining, is already sick and tired of grades, scores, and evaluations.
School has become a place where there are no dreams, only competition, or if there are dreams, they are not challenged.
My daughter is seeing the excitement and beauty that comes from dreaming, not through her own experiences and growth, but only on TV, like her mom in her mid-40s.
I feel sorry for her, but I can’t escape the mom who plays “You still have to do well on the test” on an infinite loop.
I guess I want my daughter to be a good student, a “mom’s girl,” even though I know that confining her to a mold of example makes it harder for her to dream.
I wonder what her reaction would be if I suggested that she opt out of the system.
I’m afraid she’ll say, “I know,” and I’m afraid she’ll say, “I’ll put up with it.
I think about how I can free her from the endless competition and exams.
We can’t send her to study abroad, so we decide to buy her the guitar she’s always wanted.
We don’t expect a guitar to change her life, and it’s not likely to, but we want her to experience the excitement and joy of learning to play.

 

 

Topic – Parents are the cause of stress in children

There has been a significant increase in stress among children in recent years.
This trend is also seen in pediatric practices.
More than 20% of children who visit pediatricians come in with stress-related illnesses.
Many of these are tummy aches and headaches that are more stress-related than medical.
Now, you might be thinking, what is stress for kids?
What may seem like nothing to an adult can be stressful to a child.
This is because children are less able than adults to identify the source of stress and overcome it.
Children are more susceptible to stress when they are put in unfamiliar situations or asked to do things they are not confident in.
For example, the first day back to school after a vacation or a parental argument can cause unbearable emotional disturbances, and when a child is severely stressed, they may become emotionally withdrawn, irritable, anxious, and complain of stomach upset.
Sometimes nail biting, eye blinking tics, and frightening dreams are also common.
What are the main causes of stress in children?
Parents often assume that children are stressed because of issues like peer bullying or grades.
However, children are most often emotionally distressed because of their parents.
Parents don’t realize that they are abusing their children by neglecting them.
Children worry that they will be orphaned in a divorce if their parents argue, and if they are socially inclined, they are exposed to a lot of stress.
Children who are nurtured in a stable, emotionally warm home often find that the impact of everyday stress is lessened.
Even when enduring physical pain, studies have shown that children from well-adjusted families have a leveling off of stress hormones.
This means that they are better able to cope with the situation.
Keep in mind.
That the beginning of my child’s abuse is indifference.
Thank you for listening.