A collection of 3-minute speech examples for parent seminar instructors. It provides examples of how to effectively deliver your message with empathy and professionalism.

 

Topic – How to raise your child to be a social honor student

Hello, everyone!
It’s a time when kids with good personalities are more popular than kids with good academics, and people with good social skills are more sought after than people with top universities.
The most important factor in determining social skills is home education. How can we raise our children to be attractive socializers?
Is socialization something you’re born with or something you learn?
Socialization is simply the ability to get along with others. A lack of social skills hinders your ability to connect with others because you lack the ability to express and share your emotions. We often think of introverts as lacking in socialization, but they’re just not sociable, not socializers.
Eiger’s first experience with society is at home. Even infants who can’t talk are in constant communication with their moms through eye contact and breathing, so it’s important to respond to their fidgeting and babbling by smiling and showing interest.
Also, you need to know your child’s personality before you start socializing. If you try to change their personality too much, it can actually harm their socialization.
An expressive, outgoing child should be engaged in play activities, while a calm, quiet child should be respected for their alone time.
Taking an interest in the little details of your child’s world with the help of their friends, teachers, and friends’ parents can help you pinpoint their personality. The biggest mistake parents make these days is trying to change their child’s personality to be more extroverted at all costs. If they’re shy or don’t get along with their friends, they’ll sulk.
But there are many benefits to being an introvert: they can be caring and reflective, which makes them mature and deeply connected. If your child is overly introverted, you can start by making friends one-on-one and build their confidence in small and large groups.
Above all, the most important thing is attention and love for our child.
We need to know what our child wants.
Let’s look back at our children with loving eyes.

 

 

Topic – When will spring come for our children

Where are the middle and high school students of the land on a sunny Saturday afternoon in June?
Are they busy hanging out with friends and reading books?
Or did they run off to the mountains and fields to get in touch with nature?
But we know the answer.
That they are all confined to small spaces, whether classrooms or study rooms.
In an anti-human rights educational environment where underage high school students are labeled “you are class 1” or “you are class 9,” they are mortgaging their beautiful budding years in order to push their seatmate up one grade, so that they can somehow get into a top university.
In the past, only high school years had to be mortgaged, but gradually, middle school, elementary school, and kindergarten years are also being mortgaged.
So, if I enter college, will I be able to end my mortgaged life today?
The freedom and romance of being a college student is short-lived, and then you have to mortgage again for four years to get a job.
So, once you get a job, will you be able to end your mortgaged life today?
And in most cases, it doesn’t.
In the rapid expansion of contingent work, the threat of routine restructuring, job insecurity, and the surveillance and control of meritocracy await.
In a society that lacks a social safety net, the 1997 crash, combined with materialism, has taught people that no one is responsible for their tomorrow.
So each mortgages today to secure an insecure tomorrow.
A life robbed of all the today of adolescence, college, and work.
Naturally, such a life cannot be faithful to me today, and a today that is not faithful to me cannot be faithful to others.
Each person is less likely to feel happy today, neighbors cannot expect care, concern, and solidarity, sibling friendship disappears, and propertyless parents become objects of annoyance, if not abuse.
South Korea’s ranking at the top of the world in terms of working hours, labor intensity, labor accidents, overwork and stress, musculoskeletal disorders, suicide rates, crime rates, and plummeting fertility rates is not unrelated to a society that lacks a safety net, where its members are forced to live a life where today is endlessly mortgaged for an uncertain tomorrow.
So, when will our blossoming spring come?
Will we be able to see and feel that liberation before we die, before we close our eyes?
I wonder if my children will inherit this squirrelly situation, just as I did.
Thank you, everyone, for listening.

 

 

Topic – I want you to be happy with who you are

One day, after a meeting, a deacon came up to us with his smartphone.
He snapped a picture with his phone and then started raving about how much he looked like a celebrity, which drew a crowd around him.
There was a lot of interest in whether there was an application on smartphones that could tell you how much a person looks like a celebrity.
One woman said she looked like a younger celebrity with a slimmer body, while another said she looked like a former Miss Korea.
They were thrilled, as if it was an official assessment of their appearance, while the people around them fussed over the traces of beauty hidden within.The butler pointed his camera at me, too, and took a picture.
He suddenly hid his phone and started laughing as he realized the match was too good to be true. After a round of laughter, he said that the chubby-looking male MC was the celebrity he most resembled, and the older, more athletic female celebrity was his second favorite.
The rest of us around us laughed and had a great time.
It was all in good fun, after all.
When I got home, I asked my daughter next to me if I really looked like that.
She tried to comfort her mom with stories about how the smartphone program is clumsy, how the camera doesn’t recognize glasses, and so on.
I thought, “Well, a machine wouldn’t lie to me, so maybe that’s how I see myself objectively.
I was probably perceiving myself in a much more positive light because I thought I looked better than that.
I finally realized why every time I looked at a photo, everyone else seemed to look the same, but I was the only one who looked off.
I looked in the mirror and re-examined myself, putting on and taking off my glasses.
I had aged significantly, and the corners of my eyes had drooped.
I took an eyebrow pencil and traced the tip of my drooping brow.
I painted over it, and over it, and over it, and over it, and over it, until I ended up with an exaggeratedly raised eyebrow that looked like a villainess in a historical drama.
It was a ridiculous look that I wasn’t used to, but I confess that at the time, I wanted to stay in that exaggerated look for a while.
Hours later, I happened to look in the mirror and saw dark circles under my eyes.
I was surprised to realize that I hadn’t realized that I had dark circles under my eyes before.
Upon closer inspection, I realized that the dark circles were the result of my eye makeup smudging under my eyes.
I laughed out loud for a while, unable to contain myself.
I washed my face, and my sagging heart washed with it.
I had been so disappointed in myself because I was dissatisfied with the way I looked, but once I accepted the way I looked, I loved and appreciated it just the way it was.
I realize again that the way I am, naturally bearing the marks of my life so far, is my own history that no one else can change.
How about you?
Everyone, being human, cares a lot about what they look like and how they carry themselves.
However, if you strip it down to the bare bones, we are all aging people, and our outer appearance is getting worse by the day.
However, the inner person becomes newer and richer every day, and we resolve to live a life worthy of the night.
How about this.
A true beauty is not a face with big eyes and a high nose, but a face that reflects your inner self.
It is said that after 40, your face shows your years.
We should all strive to be proud of our faces from now on.
Thank you for listening.

 

 

Topic – How to talk at eye level

Good afternoon, everyone.
Thank you for joining us for this parenting seminar.
I hear a lot of parents complaining about how difficult it is to talk to their children these days.
The parent-child relationship is close if it’s close and difficult if it’s difficult.
It’s a difficult relationship where you feel like you know everything because you gave birth to my child, but you don’t actually know anything.
I think that’s what a parent-child relationship is.
The most common mistake parents make is misunderstanding.
The belief that I know my child is sometimes a barrier to accepting them for who they are.
Instead of looking at what they like, I’m secretly looking for the idealized version of myself in them.
Or we can’t accept that kids change as they grow, and we try to find the child we once knew in the child we now see.
But it’s not the parents’ fault.
Our children are living in a different era than we are.
While we grew up being taught to obey our parents’ wishes, our children are growing up being taught to think freely and broaden their knowledge.
It’s unreasonable to expect a conversation between two generations with vastly different upbringings to be seamless from the start, and of course it takes work.
Here’s a story from the radio.
It’s a story about a stay-at-home dad who’s struggling to get his son to talk to him.
While his wife is able to text him casually when he’s on a school trip, his long text messages are met with one-liners like “yes” and “no”.
Unsure of what’s going on, the husband starts to take it out on the wife.
How much easier it would be if we were still living in a time when lashing out at your spouse or kids was considered sufficient conversation. Unfortunately, in the 21st century, this kind of conversation only builds walls between you and your kids.
Times have changed, and so should parents.
Just as our generation is resistant to the unfamiliar and new, our kids are bored with what’s gone before. But kids are a whole new world.
If we want to communicate with them, we have to learn how to talk to them.
In our story, the wife can’t stand her husband’s tantrums, so she gives him a lecture on how to talk to their son.
When the son responds to his mom’s patronizing tirade with an emoji, the husband is forced to learn how to talk to his wife.
It’s not that kids antagonize their parents from the start.
It’s just that the uncomfortable, awkward relationship has evolved into exclusion.
A text from a changed father leads to a text from a changed son.
The reply, which comes back in its own sentence, is proof that our kids aren’t necessarily rejecting their parents’ generation.
They just want us to try to communicate with them in a language that is not foreign to them.
New things are always strange and difficult.
But a new way of talking will give you and your kids a new direction in your relationship. I hope today’s seminar will be helpful to parents who are struggling to connect with their kids.
Thank you.

 

 

Topic – Saying “It’s not about me

There is a TV show that my family watches together on Sunday evenings.
It’s called “1 Night 2 Days,” where a group of young male celebrities travel to beautiful places in Korea.
The show is so powerful that it has brought our family together, each with their own favorite show, and has exponentially expanded the number of campers who enjoy the mountains and fields.
Our family especially loves the quirky laughs and games, and the all-around bases of the cast.
There’s a phrase they always shout when they win, no matter what they have to do to get a meal and a comfortable place to sleep.
Just me~!”
I think many people enjoy 1D2L because they feel it’s a good time in today’s world, where there’s not much to laugh about, even though it’s full of cheating and tricks that would cause serious problems in real life.
But the other day, your son is playing a game with his friends, and he cheats and brags loudly that he won.
At that moment, you felt a sense of righteousness that you had to teach him the right things.
I’m sure any parent would do the same.
But then my son said, “Just not me.”
It’s ridiculous, and I wonder if he’s just watching too much TV and learning from it, or if he’s just being a kid, but then I think to myself that he’s learning from the competitive, individualistic behavior and tone of adults.
The world is getting busier and busier every day, and it seems like we’re living in a society where it’s all about me.
I wonder if the economic recession of recent years has frozen people’s hearts, leaving them with no time to think about their neighbors in need. I’m concerned.
I wonder if we, too, have been living with the thought, “I’m the only one who can’t eat or wear clothes.
The other day, a friend of mine in Busan called me to tell me that he had made a late-night snack.
I wondered what she was talking about, but she told me that she had decided to help a 5-year-old black boy in a country in Africa through an aid organization.
They’re sending him $20,000 a month, which is enough to feed a family of four in Africa for about a month.
TV shows often show the poverty of African children these days.
They’re skeletal from starvation, infants dying from suckling on their mothers’ breasts, children in Haiti eating sweets made of dirt.
I felt ashamed of myself for being indifferent to the tragedies happening elsewhere in the world, thinking, “It’s not me, so it’s okay.
Some people might say, “Why help people in Africa when there are so many people in our own country who don’t have much.
But the important thing is not whether we help our neighbors or children in Africa, it’s that we need to be able to look around us today, and not be selfish, in order for society and ourselves to live well together in the future.
Humans are social animals, which means we can’t live alone. However, in modern times, we are slaves to the foolish idea that we shouldn’t be the only one to suffer in anything. I think that our ancestors lived in mutual dependence on each other through kinship, duree, and in-laws because they understood the truth that they could only live well if others lived well.
The ongoing recession, unemployment, and high cost of living have stretched our wallets even thinner, but instead of shouting “me too,” what if we turned the tables and said “me too”?
At the very least, wouldn’t you find yourself enjoying yourself more by giving back, as my friend did?
Thank you for listening.

 

 

Topic – We need mountain education

The government has announced that it will implement a five-day school week for elementary, middle, and high schools nationwide starting in 2012.
This is great news for students and parents who have been unable to take a trip without worry.
It’s a great opportunity to break out of the confines of education and take your kids to visit historical sites and have a living education.
It’s also a chance for families who have been too busy to talk to each other face to face.
The Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology explained that the reason behind the full implementation of the five-day school week is that the 40-hour work week has been expanded since July this year.
This may have led to a high percentage of schools and parents’ support for a five-day school week.
At this point, we need to teach and learn about ‘how to make a living’ and ‘how to rest well and play well’.
There should be efforts and research on how to rest when we rest and how to play when we play.
Especially for hardworking people like us, learning how to rest and play is essential.
It is also necessary to present different ways on how to play better and how to rest better.
It goes without saying that traveling, studying history and nature, playing well, and resting well will improve your learning ability.
It’s also a great way to get away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life and get some fresh air with your kids.
For adults, too, being well-rested and recharged fuels productivity.
It’s time to create a culture of useful leisure where we can rest well and play well together.
Society doesn’t need FM-style talent anymore.
It needs creative people, not workaholics.
The expansion of the nine-to-five workweek will significantly change the leisure patterns of our lives.
Whereas schools and academies used to be the main source of education, the role of home education will be strengthened.
I hope that families will provide their children with many creative activities.
It will be a great joy to see children develop their own aptitudes and talents through creative play and self-directed learning.
I also hope that the educational function of the family and society will be strengthened by increasing the time parents and children spend together.
Thank you for listening.

 

 

Topic – Adenoid Hyperplasia

How are you?
With the weather suddenly turning chilly, it’s not easy to keep our children healthy.
Children with weakened immune systems can easily catch colds during this season.
Parents are often overwhelmed by their children’s coughs and runny noses.
But what do you do when your child snores loudly at night?
Do you shrug it off as a cold, or maybe your child is just tired?
If your child’s snoring is unusually loud compared to other children, and they seem to have trouble breathing through their nose on a regular basis, you may have enlarged adenoids.
Adenoids are part of the tonsils, which are located between the nose and throat and are responsible for keeping infections out of the respiratory tract.
When these adenoids become inflamed and swollen, it’s called adenoid hypertrophy.
There are two causes of enlarged adenoids.
One is due to infection, and the other is simply enlargement during growth spurts.
If the adenoids are temporarily enlarged due to growth spurts, they will naturally return to their original size, but if the condition is chronic, treatment is required.
Not only can enlarged adenoids cause snoring, otitis media, and more, but they can also interfere with food intake and cause vomiting.
In addition, children who are deprived of a good night’s sleep due to snoring are more likely to become fatigued, have a lowered immune system, and are more susceptible to colds and other illnesses, and can become irritable and distracted if they are constantly tired due to sleep disturbances.
Emotional anxiety and learning difficulties have been characterized in children with sleep disorders, so you don’t want to let this happen.
Worse yet, enlarged adenoids can lead to facial deformities.
Enlarged adenoids block the airway, preventing smooth breathing.
Children who find it difficult to breathe through their nose develop a habit of breathing through their mouth, which leads to facial deformities.
In severe cases, the facial deformity can go as far as the upper and lower front teeth not being able to close together.
Children who snore often grow more slowly than their peers, even if it’s not necessarily due to enlarged adenoids.
Since snoring disrupts sleep, which can lead to hormonal disruption during sleep, it’s a good idea to get your child checked out before it becomes a habit.
As you can see, even the slightest symptom in your child is worth paying attention to.
It’s important to recognize the signs and symptoms of a child’s snoring, as some of them can have irreversible consequences later on.
We wish you the best of luck with your children and hope that they grow up healthy.
Thank you.

 

 

Topic – The father effect

‘It’s nice to have a mom. It’s nice to have a refrigerator because it makes me feel beautiful. I’m glad I have a mom. I like having a dog. I don’t know why I have a dad, because he plays with me.
This is a poem by a second grader titled “Why Daddy” that was featured on an entertainment program last year.
I’m sure I’m not the only one who can’t help but smile.
For me, it must have left a chill down the spine of many dads in our society.
I’m sure they’re feeling frustrated that they’ve had to go to work like every other day, eating a sloppy breakfast and jostling for space on a crowded subway to earn money for their families.
How could they be less than a puppy or a refrigerator?
The problem with Korean society is that even if you want to be a father, your circumstances don’t allow it.
There are frequent night shifts, company dinners, reunions, and other gatherings.
There are many people who want to be a good father but don’t know how.
It’s a world where fathers need to learn how to be fathers, not just tell their children to study.
It’s a world where fathers have to learn to be fathers.
How involved are we in our children’s upbringing?
Do I know what grade my child is in, what class, how many times, who their best friends are, what their favorite foods are, what shows they watch, who their favorite celebrities are.
Have you ever been indifferent, thinking that all of that is a mother’s domain?
I feel that our society has created an atmosphere that excludes fathers from raising children.
It’s a classic drama scene when a child’s grades drop, and the husband berates his wife, “What are you doing at home?”
However, research shows that fathers who are actively involved in their children’s upbringing from an early age are more likely to have higher academic achievement.
It’s also been shown that a father’s active involvement increases the likelihood that his children will have a successful life.
Children whose fathers were involved in their upbringing were more resilient to stress and failure, had greater control over themselves and situations, and were better problem-solvers.
The father effect, this energy that comes from fathers rather than mothers, shouldn’t be ignored.

 

 

Theme – Mom’s maternal love

I was once away from home for a week.
The house had been taken over by fruit flies.
I had left grapes out.
I thought fruit flies were air-synthesizing insects.
I thought it was an amazing life form that could spontaneously create itself if you put food out.
But that was the extent of my awe-inspiring gaze at the fruit fly race.
Until I noticed a fruit fly hovering around a baby.
Enraged, I swatted them away with tissues and, when I could, with my bare hands.
Of course, there was a time when I would have screamed and clung to the groom at the sight of an insect.
But that wasn’t the issue now.
My mind was solely focused on exterminating the fruit flies that wandered around my baby.
I guess this is what motherhood is like.
When I look at my baby, I’m always so impatient because it’s eyes, nose, mouth, fingers, and toes are all so beautiful, but it feels so small and fragile.
I’m filled with the feeling that if anything goes wrong, it’s going to hurt many times worse.
So I want to keep my baby clean and safe from all the dirty, dreary, dangerous things that exist in the world.
And I think that’s what makes it so intense and ferocious.
After all, isn’t maternal love an emotion that stems from selfish motives?
Evolutionarily speaking, yes.
I want to make sure that the baby who inherits my genes lives as long and as healthy as possible.
No matter what.
It’s not altruistic at all.
This reminded me of a movie.
In the movie, the mother will do anything to get her child out of jail.
She ends up killing him.
Of course, I’m not saying that’s what I would do.
But that movie makes sense to me now.
How a mother must have felt when she danced around laughing and crying after killing the witnesses that sent her son to prison.
Moms are people who are made to live for something they are not.
I may end up digging my own heart out, but it hurts less than it hurts my child.
Nevertheless, motherhood as we know it is different.
The image of a mother is one that brings tears to the eyes of the onlooker with its tender, unending, sacrificial love.
I’m not saying this view is wrong.
I’m just saying that’s how my mom was when she was my mom.
From the outside looking in, motherhood is a bit of an arcane, polarizing, and sometimes violent thing.
People call other people’s moms with these characteristics “aunties”.
Maybe that’s why “mom” is loved endlessly, but “auntie” is always criticized.
Thank you for listening.

 

 

Topic – Making my child gifted is a shortcut to ruining them

I think about what is responsible for distorting gifted education in Korea.
It is a prediction that it will be a hierarchical university system with Seoul National University as the apex.
Currently, science gifted education centers operated by universities by region include physics, biology, chemistry, earth science, mathematics, and information science.
The most competitive department for admission is math.
The math class is the most competitive solely because it is a real help in college admissions.
It’s a win-win situation, as you’ll get advanced tutoring for free.
In addition, there is a college entrance examination policy that favors the winners of various competitions.
After gifted education, winning competitions is recognized as the fastest way to get into Seoul National University.
The government allows students from special science schools to enter majors outside of their major, such as law or general social studies, without any restrictions.
It all boils down to getting into Seoul National University.
Giftedness is the cornerstone for my child’s admission to Seoul National University.
Even now, many parents invest heavily to make their children gifted.
Even if you just search the word gifted on the internet, gifted education sites will pop up.
You might think that the key is whether your child is gifted or whether your child will get into Seoul National University.
However, it is predicted that the results of parents’ efforts will be minimal.
This is because the criteria for judging giftedness has not been established, and the educational goals are vague, so it is difficult to expect results.
It’s important to keep in mind that giftedness programs can actually ruin a child who will grow up to be a normal, healthy citizen.
It’s possible that they could be overbearing and emotionally scarring a child, which could impair their ability to learn.
Determining giftedness by the end result of a test score is also not accurate.
It is preferable to observe the child’s cognitive process very closely and make a judgment based on the results.
Giftedness is not made.
This is something we parents should keep in mind.
Thank you for listening, everyone.