Parents

Have your parents ever offered you money or other incentives for picking up a book?

Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1, 2021.Try to name as many reasons as you can why a student might fall behind in schoolwork — reasons that are particularly relevant to the challenges of the current school year. Why can it be difficult to…

What do you think would be the joys and challenges of going into business with your mother or father?

Find all our Student Opinion questions here. Have you ever had a parent or guardian stay at home to care for you or the other children in your family? If so, what kinds of chores and responsibilities were involved? Do you think it was difficult, valuable work? Today, stay-at-home moms and dads account for about…

Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 2021.Do you regularly receive praise from your parents for your accomplishments — big and small? Do you ever think it’s too much?Do you think there’s a downside to praise — or can one never get enough approval and…

Last week, a college admissions bribery scandal made the news. In fact, we asked students for their responses. Today, we ask about the parental behavior that may give rise to such situations. How involved do you think parents should be in their children’s lives? What can young people do if they feel their parents are…

If you’re overwhelmed with school work or extracurricular obligations, whom do you go to for support? What about if you have a conflict with a friend or classmate?Are there specific circumstances when you seek support from your parents and other adults? Are there things you don’t like your parents to say or do when you…

Brian Willoughby knows he’s doing a good job when parents become uncomfortable. That’s because part of his job involves telling them that their teenagers are looking at pornography — hard-core, explicit, often violent. Sometimes, the conversation is with a church group.Dr. Willoughby is a social scientist at Brigham Young University, where he studies the pornography…

Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1, 2021.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “Parents of 545 Children Separated at the Border Cannot Be Found” by Caitlin DickersonIn 2017, before the Trump administration’s widely publicized “zero tolerance” immigration policy went into effect, children were separated from their parents…

Have your parents ever lied to you?Let’s be real, all people — and parents are people after all — lie. But have they ever purposely lied to you to shield you from difficult news?If so, are you grateful that your parents acted to reassure and protect you? Or do you wish they had just been…