Learn how to write a 3-minute speech for speech instructors to use at parent seminars. Learn how to deliver your message in a short and powerful way.

 

Topic – Be a supportive parent in your child’s career development

hello.
Your child’s career is a very important issue.
How you develop it can make a difference to your child’s future.
In a rapidly changing society, I’m sure many parents are wondering how they can help their children develop their careers and become successful leaders.
Career guidance is no longer just about identifying aptitudes and interests and choosing a career, but has evolved into a lifelong process of career exploration that continues as you grow.
Like Kim Yeon-ah, many parents are feeling the pressure to identify and develop their children’s aptitudes early on, but they are at a loss as to how to do so.
This is because in the current education system in Korea, parents focus on immediate academic performance rather than career development.
In order to develop a child’s career path, it is necessary for the child to understand themselves.
If they can identify what they want to do, what they are good at, and set their own goals for their lives, then they will be able to find the right career education.
We all know that parents have the most to do with finding the right career path, right?
It’s a good idea to expose your children to as many experiences and activities as possible, provide them with role models they can look up to, and create a career portfolio together.
It’s also important for us to help them realize their dreams and goals.
Parents, set goals with your children and support them in realizing their dreams.
I’m confident that if you listen to your children a little more, you can make a significant impact on their career development.
Thank you very much for listening so far.

 

 

Topic – Raising empowered children

Good afternoon, esteemed parents!
Welcome to this parent seminar on raising empowered children.
I want to thank you all for taking time out of your busy schedules to help shape your children’s bright futures.
Before I became a youth leader and stepped into the classroom, I was a teacher in my denomination.
During my time as a teacher, I realized through my interviews with many of my students that they were under a lot of stress in their relationships with their parents. Often, they didn’t trust their decisions and showed doubt. Many of them didn’t have the ability to plan their own lives or make choices easily.
To better understand their attitudes, we decided to have more in-depth conversations with them.
The children we talked to were tired and worn out, as if they had already lived the world, even though they were still growing up.
In 2022, Kyunghyang Newspaper published a series titled ‘7 Promises to Save Children’.
The first promise was that children should be happy now, and the second was that the best way to study is to play. Third, success is doing what you want to do. Fourth, other people’s happiness is my child’s happiness.
Fifth, it’s about learning, not grades. Sixth, college should be a choice. And finally, number seven, “The child is in charge of his or her own life.
These seven points seem to be the sum total of parents’ wishes that weigh heavily and exhaustingly on their children’s lives.
Few of the children I met at school seemed to have happiness in mind for the here and now. They were being forced to live in the present for the sake of some vague future success and happiness that might never come. Study, which should be their best form of play, was holding them back, and they were forced to constantly compete with their peers for grades, not learning. College is a requirement, not a choice, and kids are pushed into high-scoring schools and majors without regard for what they want to do.
They were no longer in charge of their lives.
What do you think?
We want our children to be able to think for themselves and navigate the world.
Yet, ironically, we don’t teach them to be empowered at all.
Instead, the world is dominated by methods of education that stifle our children’s agency and judgment and turn them into grade-makers.
Dear Parents.
I understand the expectations you have for the child in your arms, and I know that they are driven by love and concern for your child’s well-being, not by your own greed.
But it’s time to consider what’s truly in their best interest.
Success isn’t about landing a high-paying job that’s recognized by society; it’s about “doing what you want to do.
Let’s not forget that in order for our children to achieve this true success, they must first take the initiative to explore what they want to do.
And with that, I’d like to conclude today’s talk by asking you to remember that the happiness and success of your children lies in the right guidance.
Thank you.

 

 

Topic – Self-esteem makes a positive difference in children

I truly admire you for coming here today out of a heart of infinite love for your children. I think today’s talk will have a greater impact on you if you put your children first. I’m sorry I’m late in introducing myself. My name is ○○○, a lecturer in child psychology at ○○ University.
Parents, you were once a child of parents.
Think back to your own childhood.
Think about the words you heard from your parents, whether they were words of praise that made you feel so happy or words of criticism that caused you great despair and sadness. Some of them are still very much with you, and even if you have forgotten them, they are still imprinted in your unconscious mind and act as trauma.
Could you be unknowingly passing that trauma on to your children?
School-age children are especially sensitive to the stimuli they receive from language.
And your words are a huge part of the foundation of their self-esteem.
Self-esteem is the power of a child to love themselves and affirm their worth.
A child who doesn’t love themselves, who doesn’t know their worth, can’t develop a healthy sense of self, and the biggest problem is that they’re going to take out on their children the same hurt that they took out on themselves, creating a never-ending cycle.
There are probably countless indicators of a good parent.
But I think the most important one is a commitment to character education.
A healthy, loved child,
who thinks positively and has a stable sense of self.
Other education can always be supplemented later, but character can never be developed in a short period of time, nor can it be supplemented or improved later when the child is older.
In that sense, it would not be an exaggeration to say that today you are learning the essence of children’s education. Parents are an absolute existence for children, and they are like a mirror. Therefore, it is the first thing you should try and do so that you can leave your child with many happy memories, and that they can be healthy and beautiful throughout their lives.
With that in mind, I would like to open today’s session by administering the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, which has been proven to have very high reliability and validity, and will allow you to indirectly infer the level of your child’s self-esteem. With that, I would like to conclude my introductory remarks and thank you for listening.

 

 

Topic – The Backfire of Praise

Think about the backfire effect of praise. Psychologists have warned that the idea that parents and teachers should praise children for every little thing at every opportunity can backfire on them. Not only does over-praising them for every little thing not work for the things that really deserve praise, but it can also lead to children acting out of self-motivation, because they’re only doing things because they want praise. The point is that overuse of praise makes it harder to recognize its value and halves its effectiveness.
Of course, that’s assuming that praise is part of our daily routine. Children who grow up hearing frequent praise have become accustomed to the sweetness of praise and are unwilling to taste the bitterness of patience or criticism, and many children are too spoiled or vulnerable to taste the bitterness of criticism.
EBS’s DocuPrime’s What Is School scientifically proved the counterproductive effects of praise that we hadn’t realized, and it was a wake-up call for parents who had blind faith in the effectiveness of praise. When children were told “good job,” “smart,” and “smartest,” they didn’t feel the pressure to perform to their abilities and didn’t even conform to avoid disappointing themselves. That’s when praise turned into poison.
The idea is that children need to experience appropriate scolding to grow. It’s been said that too much is as bad as not enough. This is also true for praise. You always have to think about balance.
Be mindful of the method and process of praise. Rather than meaningless, unworthy praise, the right praise is encouragement that lets kids know they tried, that they challenged themselves, and that it’s okay to fail. The focus should be on effort rather than ability. We want to keep in mind that praise is valuable in its rarity.

 

 

Topic – Aim for an interesting learning environment

A popular Korean language instructor who once made a name for himself at a cram school had a favorite saying, “Underline!”
Students who wanted to get an extra point would flock to hear his “word” to underline.
At his command to “underline!” they would underline, and in doing so, the language book would become like an autumn mountain with blue-red underlining.
The masterpieces of the Korean language book, which were written in a logical manner with good sentences and creative thoughts, were underlined.
The weird thing is that even if the writing in a Korean language book is terrible, students still have to underline and memorize it to get a grade, so it’s hard not to get excited about “underline!
One article about a girl who scored a perfect score on this year’s difficult SAT was titled “Self-study without a cram school”.
Not long ago, the cliché “I studied only textbooks without a single tutor” was replaced by “self-study”.
Nowadays, ‘self-directed learning’ is pushing out ‘underscore!’ in cram schools.
Unlike the intention of letting students find the fun of studying by making their own plans instead of doing what the school tells them to do, the admission control system has led to a boom in self-directed learning schools.
Ah, the jaws of doom.
Even self-paced learning has to be taught in a school.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has just released a report on international comparisons of academic achievement.
Every three years, students aged 15 (middle school to high school) are assessed on their academic performance in reading, math, and science, and South Korean students ranked at the top of the list of 65 countries.
But the problem is that our children have repeatedly shown that they are not just doing well.
In reading, a subject of intense analysis in the assessment, Korean 15-year-olds ranked 58th in “control strategies” – reading with purpose and asking themselves questions.
They also ranked 28th in interest in reading.
This means that while they did well on the test, their ability to find and read for pleasure lags significantly behind their peers in other countries.
If our kids aren’t enjoying reading, aren’t reading well, and are getting good grades in reading, we should be worried.
Despite the buzz around self-paced learning, reading instruction still seems to be stuck in a dull, unimaginative, “underline that!” mode.
In a world where self-directed learning is the norm in schools, it’s pitiful to see our children’s first-place reading scores.
I wish our children could learn in a more engaging environment.
For that to happen, parents need to wake up.
Even self-directed learning requires us to get out of the mindset of looking for answers in the classroom.
Thank you for listening.

 

 

Topic – Talk to your child in a weaving way

hello.
I’m ○○○, a parent seminar instructor.
I know most of the parents here are very concerned about their children’s eating habits.
As a parent myself, I fully understand your concerns.
Today’s seminar is about weaving language to change your child’s eating habits.
Let me tell you a story about my brother.
My brother doesn’t eat all the food on his plate, and even when he does, he eats half the air in his plate.
When I try to change his eating habits, it’s always the same thing.
She feels like she’s trying to impose a rule on him that he has to eat everything on his plate, but she doesn’t say it directly.
She usually says something like. “Poor kids aren’t going to be as grumpy as you are, and they’ll be very happy to eat your leftovers.” To which the child responds, ”Then give them this.”
If our goal is the child’s health,
it’s wrong to make them eat something they don’t want or need.
Instead, we should teach them not to waste.
But we can do this better by not insisting that it’s healthy, and by not piling on more food than they need.
How are you shaping your child’s eating habits?
How do you talk to your child if you’re trying to change their eating habits?
Don’t talk in circles.
Just let them feel the underlying intention.
And before you know it, they’ll be showing you their clean plates.
Thank you.

 

 

Topic – The importance of writing

“Man is a social animal.”
Following the well-known Aristotle’s dictum, we study about people and society.
This is so that we can live as individuals in the society to which we belong.
In the same way, “whales are mammals,” we study about whales and mammals in order to be able to live as a whale.
It is clear why we study humanities and social sciences, including national languages, history, geography, sociology, economics, ethics, and philosophy, and writing is an essential part of our daily lives.
This is because the humanities and social sciences are not precise sciences that require correct answers, but rather disciplines that require thinking, logic, recognition, and sensitivity.
The disappearance of writing in our schools is tantamount to the disappearance of humanities and social science studies.
Writing is the process of organizing and shaping one’s own thoughts and is the foundation of agency and diversity.
However, rote memorization is a process that requires all students to learn the same content, which leads to uniformity and voluntary submission to the existing order and system.
It may be that the few people in our society who open their eyes to the world do so not through schooling, but through their seniors, and it may be that writing has disappeared in Korea, where humanities and social sciences have been killed in schools.
In fact, writing is a way of self-expression, and it is one of the basic needs that every social being has inside.
But most people say they write “later.
And later is often later until the end.
“This is Rodus. Run here.” It’s not something to write later, it’s something to write now.
I also tell them that their ass is the part of their body that gets the final word out, which is not a joke.
If our students have a fear of writing, it’s because they’re trying to find the right answer when they should be writing an opinion piece.
Trying to find the right answer that doesn’t exist.
It’s all because there’s no writing training.
Writing, it is an indispensable process in the formation of the subjective self.
When leaders ask me if I want to raise the so-called national character, my answer is this.
Instead of memorization, allow writing.
That’s where the step beyond nationalism to a cultural society lies.
Thank you for listening.

 

 

Topic – The Cost of Repeating

If you fail the college entrance exam, you are on the path of rebirth.
It’s the beginning of a penance.
There are many different resolutions.
Maybe you’ve really flunked out of all the colleges you applied to, or maybe you’re just taking a step back to get into a better college.
Students would know.
With youth unemployment on the rise, the idea is that it’s hard to get a job if you don’t at least graduate from a top-tier university in Seoul.
The problem is that their numbers show no signs of slowing down.
In 2022, there were 169,068 students, in 2023, there were 159,742, and in 2024, there were 161,784, and the number is growing every year.
The number of half-time students is expected to increase as well.
The pace of student enrollment today is much different than in the past.
Most students enroll in boarding schools because they believe that they can improve their scores by studying under strict discipline and systematic guidance.
Studying in an enclosed space may make them more focused, but it also makes them less self-directed.
There’s another important consideration.
The cost of school is an issue.
If you add up the cost of textbooks, food, and special lectures, it costs about 2.5 million to 3 million won per month, which is enough to break your back.
Because it’s the path their children have chosen, parents pay for it by going into debt, even if it means crying and eating mustard.
Even if social attention is focused on ‘half-price tuition’, there is no place to openly complain about high school fees.
You still have to pay it.
Parents of repeat students everywhere know that no matter how deep the wrinkles get, it’s all worth it if their child gets into the college of their choice.
I think it’s time to have some kind of public discussion about the cost of repeating school.
We should start by tearing down the social structure that encourages repeating, but while tuition is important, we should also think about the cost of repeating.