A1 Level – Elementary
1. Do you live with your parents?
2. What is a happy family?
3. Do you talk to your parents often?
4. What is a long rule?
5. Do you help your parents at home?
6. What is a warm hug?
7. Do you worry about your parents?
8. What is a good piece of advice?
9. Do you think parents have a hard job?
10. What is a family dinner?
11. Do you argue with your parents?
12. What is a favorite memory?
13. Do you respect their ideas?
14. What are three things parents teach children?
15. Do you think parents are important?
A2 Level – Pre-Intermediate
1. What is the difference between a mother’s role and a father’s role?
2. Why is good communication important between parents and children?
3. What are the good things and bad things about having strict parents?
4. How can parents support their children’s dreams?
5. Should all new parents take parenting classes?
6. Why is it important for parents to also take care of themselves?
7. Do you think parents should be friends with their children?
8. What is the purpose of setting clear boundaries and rules?
9. How does technology change the way parents watch their children?
10. What is the difference between a single parent and two parents?
11. Do you think parents should pay for their adult children’s education?
12. What are the problems when parents have very high expectations?
13. When is the best time for children to become independent?
14. What are two things that make parenting challenging?
15. How does the relationship with your parents affect your future relationships?
B1 Level – Intermediate
1. What are the rules for politely disagreeing with your parents’ advice?
2. How does the economy affect the stress levels of working parents?
3. Should the government provide guaranteed paid parental leave for both parents?
4. What is the difference between supportive parenting and helicopter parenting?
5. Do you believe that the most important thing a parent gives is love?
6. What are the challenges of raising children in a culture different from your own?
7. How does the focus on achievement affect the emotional well-being of children?
8. What is the idea of “intergenerational trauma”?
9. Is it fair or unfair when some parents prioritize their career over family time?
10. How does a lack of open dialogue lead to family conflict?
11. What are the steps for properly teaching a child financial responsibility?
12. What is the value of receiving unconditional support from your parents?
13. Should public media criticize parents who fail to provide basic needs?
14. What are the reasons why some adult children move back in with their parents?
15. How does the style of parenting change from one generation to the next?
B2 Level – Upper-Intermediate
1. What are the social pressures on parents to appear perfect on social media?
2. What are the moral problems when parents try to live their own unfulfilled dreams through their children?
3. How does constant comparison with other families affect parenting confidence?
4. Should parents be legally required to send their children to school?
5. Analyze the psychological effect of receiving constant criticism from a parent.
6. Who is responsible for providing resources and support for struggling single parents?
7. What is your view on the practice of giving children everything they ask for?
8. Evaluate the role of cultural expectations in shaping parenting roles.
9. How does the concept of “emotional labor” apply to the work of parents?
10. Discuss the concept of “empty nest syndrome” (children leaving home).
11. What are the problems with having very different parenting styles between two parents?
12. What are the legal differences between child neglect and strict discipline?
13. Do you agree that the purpose of parenting is mainly to produce independent, productive adults?
14. What steps should be taken to ensure that children have a voice in family decisions?
15. How does the economic reality of the modern world change the necessity of dual-income parenting?
C1 Level – Advanced
1. Is it fair that the most important job (parenting) is often the most undervalued by society?
2. What is the right way to think about a government’s moral duty to protect children from parental failure?
3. How do the platform’s algorithms influence the type of parenting advice that becomes viral?
4. When should the government consider mandatory financial literacy education for new parents?
5. What are the moral questions when we talk about using genetic testing to predict a child’s potential?
6. How does the focus on quick fixes affect the long-term, necessary investment in a secure attachment relationship?
7. Discuss the impact of major corporate lobbying on policies affecting family work-life balance.
8. How should leaders use knowledge about child development to design better public services?
9. What is the idea of “conscious parenting” and its focus on the parent’s self-awareness?
10. What are the long-term effects on society when fewer people can afford to have children?
11. What are the difficulties when courts try to decide if a parent’s cultural practice is harmful neglect?
12. How does the search for total control conflict with the need to allow children autonomy?
13. Do you agree that the most important thing is the equal distribution of parenting responsibilities between partners?
14. What are the simple moral rules a person should follow when giving unsolicited parenting advice?
15. Should the government set a legal minimum for the quality of early childhood education available to all?
C2 Level – Proficiency
1. What is the real difference between a person’s desire to nurture and their inherited patterns of parenting?
2. Debate the idea: Should we completely require licensing for all people who wish to become parents?
3. How does the concept of “family” change when technology allows for non-biological parentage?
4. What laws or rules are needed to control how technology platforms use images of children without parental consent?
5. How do historical views of patriarchal and matriarchal family structures affect modern co-parenting?
6. How can communities maintain shared child-rearing values when family structures are highly diverse?
7. Argue the point that humans should stop all attempts to define “good parenting” and allow maximum individual freedom.
8. What protection should laws give to children who report abuse or neglect by their parents?
9. How can we stop the problem of using the argument of “tradition” to excuse outdated or harmful parenting practices?
10. What did old thinkers say about care, responsibility, and the moral duty to the next generation that is still relevant today?
11. What will happen to the need for human parental guidance if AI can provide perfect, personalized education?
12. How do people use the idea of “doing my best” to avoid discussing their psychological impact on their children?
13. How does the experience of a major family conflict improve a person’s understanding of unconditional love?
14. What is the power of a collective movement to demand that workplaces are fully family-friendly?
15. If scientists could create a perfect, non-bias parenting algorithm, how would that fundamentally change human relationships?
