1) How do parents who were neglected in their childhood treat their children?
2) What is wrong with the 60’s parents?
3) What lies behind the behaviour of table-thumping and rule-laying parents?
4) Why are insecure parents called problem?
5) What problems do you think to be the most serious in upbringing? What can they result in?
6) How, in your opinion, is it possible to help problem parents change?
7)The amount of freedom that adults give teenagers is a matter for lively debate.
What are the possible positive or negative consequences of giving a lot of freedom to teenagers? Discuss.
For example: Positive – They learn to look after themselves.
8) What are the possible positive or negative consequences of restricting what teenagers do? Discuss.
For example: Positive – They learn to accept the value of rules.
9) Do parents sometimes put too much pressure on their children to be successful at school? How do children react to such pressure?
10) What attitude do you think parents should have to their children’s schoolwork?
11) Parents sometimes give up their own ambitions and life through their children. They experience their children’s success and failures as if they were their own. How are children affected in these cases?