The Lil Genius Kid

“A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves” - Anonymous

Do you want your child to be an effective class participant and successful public speaker?

No matter what the future holds, learning the importance of public speaking is a skill that will help your child. Communication skills remain high in the list of proficiencies that employers expect employees to master. By introducing your child to public speaking at a young age, you will give him a variety of experiences and self confidence. Confidence is the key ingredient to success and leadership in today’s fast paced, challenging and competitive world.

Our award winning recipes will help students in the following areas:

Our unique hands on recipes goals are to:

• Teach students how to overcome nervousness, speak loudly, develop posture, organize their ideas, and utilize visual aids and the importance of non verbal communication.
• With continuous practice and constructive personal feedback, children will become natural speakers and learn to Think, Lead and Communicate.
• These recipes are designed to improve self confidence, clear communication, and critical thinking and public speaking skills, learning to overcome shyness and accept new challenges in home and school settings.

Tender Loving Recipes   Ages 3-7 years (12 weeks)

Our TLC Tender Loving Recipes are a series of ongoing public speaking, confidence and communication development programs based around animals, things of the world, science, stories, characters, famous people and various topics that intrigue kids to engage in conversation and drama. Each class teaches the way to present a topic on a specific subject, mastering facts and styles of presenting on stage. Every student actively participates with a microphoe. Your children will squeal with laughter and ooze with confidence as they portray different characters through costumes and dialogues. Public speaking blended with scientific academics is what TLC is all about. Contact your local center to check the schedule and themes being delivered or email info@thelilgeniuskid.com for more information.

Informative Speech Seasonings   Ages 7-12 years (8 Weeks)

Informative speech teaches the essentials of writing and presenting great speeches on various topics. Students will learn how to create a speech on various topics, learn how to research ideas and how to present them in an organized manner, whilst developing powerful visual aids. Students will be recorded to watch their own clips and receive constructive feedback on their presentations. The focus on the class is to develop each student’s unique style of presentation, teach them how to manage anxiety and fear of large audiences, and most importantly develop the necessary life skills to excel in and out of the classroom. Final speeches are recorded on a DVD.

Monologue Meals   Ages 7-12 years (8 Weeks)

A monologue(or monolog) is when the character may be speaking his or her thoughts aloud, directly addressing another character, or speaking to the audience , especially the former. Monologues are common across the range of dramatic media ( plays, films, animation, etc).

Our Monologue recipes are designed to encourage students to develop character and learn to deal with real life situations, peer pressure and common conflicts that arise in school and life. According to research, introducing children to drama and theatre at an early age, addresses the skills which benefit children's education and development in five general areas: physical development/kinesthetic skills, artistic development /drama and theater skills, mental development/thinking skills, personal development/intra-personal skills, and social development/interpersonal skills. While many parents fear participation in drama will damage their child’s academic progress, a UCLA study concluded that students involved in the arts tend to have higher academic performance and better standardized test scores -- nearly 100 points better on the SAT, according to a separate study by The College Board.

Reference: http://www.education.com/magazine/article/What_Drama_Education_Can_Teach/

Leadership Linguine   Ages 8-12years (8 Weeks)

With increase in work pressures and this fast paced challenging world, being a good leader is not only about being excellent at your job but one needs to develop the skills to manage people well.

It is said that people with leadership qualities are very few, which results into very few leaders in our society and large number of followers. We all are taught to be leaders and not followers, but how many of us actually become leaders?

The answer to this question is the presence of some leadership qualities which are absent in most people. These leadership qualities help the leaders to think rationally, and in a different way than the way of thinking of normal people. Leaders are those people who are capable of thinking big and are visionaries who write their future on their own by hard work and consistency.

Our Leadership Linguine Recipes are interactive activities in the classroom that can serve as leadership training activities for students. Our leadership activities will prepare the students for achieving their goals of working in the high level management in a big multinational company or starting their own enterprise when they complete their education. The leadership activities for kids aim at developing the risk-taking abilities, decision-making abilities and the ability to shoulder responsibilities. The leadership challenges in leadership activities for children will train them, in this regard, quite early and increase their chances of becoming a leader.

Budding Entrepreneurs    Ages 8-12 years (8 Weeks)

Self-esteem is your child's passport to lifetime mental health and social happiness. It's the foundation of a child's well-being and the key to success as an adult. At all ages, how you feel about yourself affects how you act.

Our Budding Entrepreneurs Recipes will teach students to learn to like themselves and believe in their achievements to develop talents and acquire skills as part of their life discipline. They will learn to strike a balance between pushing themselves for unrealistic goals and expectations and achieving goals through planned organized ideas.

Using real life situations and dramatic plays, students will engage in dialogues and monologues in various “business & real life situations” such as dealing with a boss, a difficult customer, getting fired from a job, telling a friend that they are hurt, to discussing a business plan or idea with friends.

They will learn the following principles:

• Participation is key
• Dealing with life struggles without losing hope
• That perfection is not a realistic goal, but improvement is.
• That failure is inevitable, and how to handle it.
• Gain confidence to ace any hurdle in life...

Self-esteem begins to develop at a very early age. By getting your child off to the best possible start with these confidence boosters and self-esteem activities, you give him a gift that he can carry with him for the rest of his life.