Specific Purpose Statement: After listening to my speech, my audience will understand the psychological well being of the child and appreciate the factors that motivate them to succeed in their education.
Introduction
- Statement on the importance of education: Educating a child is one of the greatest joys a parent can achieve. Witnessing the progress of the young ones develop into independent and self reliant individuals induces the feeling of fulfillment, fulfillment in an endeavor that is immeasurable by any quantitative parameters.
Transition: Statement of the challenges that hinder education of affluent parents
Body
- For ideal development and education of the child, they have to be exposed to a certain environment, of which the parents are major stakeholders.
- This presentation intends on showing the factors that hinder child education and development despite the best efforts from the parents.
- While many parents expect a child to perform after providing them with all the physical needs, they often neglect the psychological well-being of their children, which shall be the subject of my discussion within this presentation.
Transition: Challenges and how to overcome them.
- A Child develops and learns best when they are happy. Child happiness is the feeling of contentment that their lives are in order. Happiness is a very volatile term in this context.
- Different parents have varying ways of describing how they make their children happy. Unlike pets, children have the ability to reason. Therefore, comfort should be construed as happiness.
- Comfort is a basic requirement to achieving happiness, but not the only requirement.
- Parents work hard in their occupations to attain the conditions of comfort that would make their dependants, including children, happy.
- While the children with affluent backgrounds should be the happier ones in comparison to their not so affluent peers, the statistics tell a different story altogether. According to a survey conducted by Laosa and published in the Journal of Educational Psychology, children with affluent backgrounds perform below their potential often than their needy counterparts (Laosa, 1982).
Transition: Offer ideal situation for the development of a child.
ii. Provide a window for the audience to field questions
iii. Provide the audience with appropriate responses to their concerns
- Success in life should motivate your child to aspire a life as yours. The question, therefore, is not providing for their needs only, but do they look up to you as a mentor?
- It is important to note that, while many parents who rise to success, especially if they were from a poor background, emphasize their success and take pride in the change, in their way of life.
- The mistake these parents make is to assume that their children see things similarly. While it is a good shift for you, it is nothing out of the ordinary for your child since they have grown up with all the affluence around them
- . To them comfort is a luxury they can’t afford appreciating; to them it’s like asking everyone else to consider how lucky they are that they have oxygen to breath, it has never been in lack in the first place.
Transition: offer an explanation of the best way to handle children in an additional response to the questions.
- So what must we consider as paramount to the development of our children in such cases?
- Harmony in the family is a major consideration. Harmonious co-existence is achieved through conscious effort of the parents. It is not a quick fix remedy, rather, a systematic inculcation of a culture.
- Taking an interest in the development of the child is a good way to start. Children need to see a caring parent.
- The problem with career parents is that they do not find time to take an interest in their child, they are always too busy.
- Taking an interest does not mean being vigilant. Religiously inspecting your child’s report forms at the end of their school terms is not a description of caring. It is an analysis, noting trends and patterns. Sounds like a professional exercise? Yes, it is.
- A child needs to know that they are learning to their benefit, and the parent is there to support them through the process, rather than evaluate them.
Transition: In conclusion
Conclusion
In conclusion, if a parent is genuinely involved in their child, the child appreciates and feels valued. This sense of self worth leads them to working hard in order to achieve something on their own and to make their loved ones proud. Child development is an engagement of love rather than supervision.
Works Cited List
Laosa, L. M. (1982). School, occupation, culture, and family: The impact of parental schooling on the parent-child relationship. Journal of Educational Psychology. doi:10.1037//0022-0663.74.6.791
