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Association for Creative Moral Education

 

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LIST OF TOPICS

  I. Social Topics:   1. Family, Family Life, Preparation for, Marriage, Parents   1.   Respectful attitude towards parents. 2.   What do you do when your parents are drunk? 3.   Parental consent: Is it necessary for marriage? 4.   “You are nobody!” Parents who don't appreciate their children. 5.   Is it shameful to be obedient to one's parents? 6.   What if your parents break the law? 7.   Younger brothers and sisters: slaves or companions? 8.   Interethnic and interracial marriages. 9.   Teenage marriage - is it OK? 10. Marriage of convenience. 11. Abandoned kids. 12. Running away from home. 13. “I love a married man!” 14. Arranged marriage. 15. How to keep love in marriage? 16. Getting married to the foreigner. 17. Divorce: failure or release? 18. Dowry: guarantee for women or heavy burden for men? 19. How to find a right partner for the family life? 20. How to prepare yourself to a marriage. 21. Family tensions: is there a way to solve them? 22. Marriage contract: is it really needed? 23. Foster Parents. 24. Marriage by advertisement. 25. Family or career? 26. Is it easy to be the only child in the family? 27.  «My son is an idiot». Blaming children: a form of backbiting. 28. «I said no! Parents, kids, and forbids. 29.   «Mama’s kid». Lifer. 30.   Stepmother, stepfather. 31.   Understanding your parents, helping them to overcome their problems…   2. Work, Job, Labor, Profession   1.   Should parents pay kids for work at home? 2.   Volunteer work for society: why it is important? 3.   Medical services: personal expense or societal duty? 4.   Choosing a profession: what we love or what makes money? 5.   Changing a profession: honest approach or search for an easy life? 6.   Honest business: is it possible? 7.   Unemployment: social insecurity or excuse not to work? 8.   Lack of facilities: reason for pessimism or a challenge? 9.   Economic independence of Women: should we strive for it? 10. Black marketing: activity for the youth? 11. Moonlight job: way to earn more or a lack of professionalism? 12. Under The Table Labor (Grey Market Labor). 13. How to prepare yourself to work. 14. Summer cottage: a joy or a burden? 15. Career or careerism (place-hunting). 16. Labor: joy or necessity?   3.  Money, Wealth, Poverty   1.   Should parents pay kids for work at home? 2.   Volunteer work for society: Do we need it? 3.   Rich and poor. 4.   Dirty money: does it spend differently? 5.   Medical services: personal expense or societal duty? 6.   Dishonest sports. 7.   Journalism: fair and corrupted. 8.   Should we give to beggars? 9.   Gambling: is it okay to try? 10. Honest business: is it possible? 11. Queen and Merchants (Contemporary Tale). 12. Black marketing: activity for the youth? 13. To have or to be? 14. Possessions: mine, yours or ours? 15. Asceticism. 16. Generosity. 17. Rich man’s obligation to take care of the poor: legend or reality?   4. School, Study, University, Education, Knowledge, Computers   1. School bullies. 2. Students’ unrest: how to stand it. 3. Teacher-Student: war or peace. 4. Leadership in the class: leading to bad or good? 5. Leadership at school: should we strive for it? 6. Stealing at school: how to prevent it.7. School fights: how to prevent it.8. Student’s smoking: how to prevent it.9. School hooliganism: how to prevent it.10. Student’s drinking: how to prevent it. 11. War between classes: how to prevent it. 12. Should we strive to the best marks? 13. I am in love with the teacher. 14. Teacher is in love with student. 15. Nerd: something to be proud of? 16. Why and how to punish students? 17. Tactlessness of the teacher.18. Hasty (hot-tempered) teacher. 19. Is it okay to crib? 20. «This is MY table» attitude. 21. Slander: information or denunciation? Tattle Tail, Snitch or Informant?22. Computers: new escapism? 23. My Mom is my teacher. Teachers’ children.   5. State, Society, Army, Weapons, Laws, Penitentiary, Politics   1. Laws: a cage or conscientious obedience? Loyalty to the Government. 2. Youth and police: why the tension? 3. Just released from prison: how to help? 4. Arms: necessary for safety? 5. Burning the flag: attitude towards revered symbols. 6. Involvement in party politics. 7. Service in the Army: a responsibility or a burden? 8. Queen and Merchants (Contemporary Tale). 9. Villagers and city-dwellers: conflict or harmony? 10.Repatriation of refugees.   6. Nationalities, Races, Transcultural Relationships   1. Interethnic and interracial marriages. 2. Transcultural conflict: is it inevitable? 3. Racial conflicts. 4. Nationalism and Patriotism: what’s the difference? 5. World Citizenship: what does it mean?   7. Religion, Faith, Mystics, Superstitions   1. Religious belief - who is against it? (or: Religious belief - a set of rules or a spiritual life?) 2. Interreligious dialogue. Interfaith: dialogue or war? 3. Practicing mysticism, astrology, spiritism etc. 4. Satanism: why? 5. Totalitarian sects. 6. Religious fanaticism.   8. Individual-Society Relationship   1.   Possessions: mine, yours or ours? 2.   Mr. Famous vs. Mr. Nobody: should we strive for fame? 3.   Scapegoat: the kid nobody likes. 4.   A talented person or a social oddity? 5.   Name calling: why people make names a target for fun. 6.   The art of consultation: a modern miracle. 7.   A mask: me real and me fake. 8.   Ebony Tower (Being a snob). 9.   “Never mind”: behind the shell. Self-isolation. 10. Can we do something to advance civilization and what can we do? 11. Low self-esteem. 12. Exaggerated self-esteem. 13. Criticism. Is it okay to criticize others? 14. How to learn to be happy: Optimism and pessimism. 15. Social inequality. 16. Competitiveness or collaboration? 17. To forgive and ask to forgive: hard or necessary? 18. Individualism or collectivism? 19. Should we care about other people?(Even when they don’t ask us?) 20. Is it shameful to use other’s experience? 21. Word or sword: Which to prefer? 22. Responsibility for someone’s life or interference? 23. Who’s right? Should we fight for the truth? 24. Purpose of life. Me and society. 25. Lack of facilities: reason for pessimism or a challenge? 26. Striving for comfort: where is the limit? 27. Hardships and tests: problems or a challenge? 28. How to stay away from swindlers? 29. Rebellion against society: new revolution or childish squeak? 30. How to adjust oneself to the rapidly changing world? 31. Should we judge others? 32. Is it okay to justify yourself in front of others? 33. World Citizenship: how to develop this feeling. 34. Leadership: should we strive for it? Leadership real and false. 35. Activity or Vanity of vanities? 36. Manipulation. Interference into someone’s life. 37. “Life through pink glasses”. Turning away from reality. 38. Readiness to changes or Conservatism? 39. Career or careerism (place-hunting). 40. Humanism: fake and real. 41. A right to make a mistake. 42. “Let there be flood after me”. Do we care about consequences? 43. Life and stage. Reality or eternal game? 44. High-born swaggering. 45. Self-dignity: how to acquire and develop it. 46. Real friend. What is real friendship. «40 pounds of salt». 47. We all know how to talk. Do we know how to listen? 48. Us and them. Gangs.   9.  Nature, Environment, Nature protection   1. Should we kill flies? Attitude towards animals. 2. Flood of garbage: inevitable sign of progress or human error? (Agenda 21) 3. Should we economize water, energy etc. 4. Should we protect nature, environment. 5. Harmony with nature: escapism or a future civilization?   10.  Mass-media: TV, press, radio   1. TV: to watch or not to watch? Is there a norm of watching? 2. Journalism: fair and corrupted. 3. Should we watch horror movies? 4. Is it harmful to watch erotic videos or porno? 5. Is it harmful to watch violence movies? 6. Pulp fiction: should we read it?   11. Health, Food, Nutrition   1. Health: personal business or social property. 2. Veganism: fanaticism in vegetarianism. 3. To live to eat or to eat to live? Attitude to food. 4. Asceticism. 5. Fasting. 6. Abstaining from food: use or harm?   12. Appearance, Outlook, Fashion   1. Being a pretty woman: advantages and challenges. 2. Our personal tastes: should we argue about them? 3. Beauty or intellect?   13.  Diseases, Death, Life after Death   1. Death of friends and relatives: tragedy or a message of joy? 2. Suicide: release or escape? 3. In a sick body there is a healthy spirit: is it possible? 4. The body and the soul (Life of a physically challenged person). 5. Euthanasia (Mercy killing). 6. Mentally handicapped: how to take care of them? 7. Quackery (sorcery): advanced method of healing or fooling people? 8. Non-traditional methods of healing: does it contradict science? 9. Pills taking: does it really help? Healing with a handkerchief. 10. Telling the truth to someone who will die soon: does he need it?   14. Age problems, Conflicts.   1. Respectful attitudes towards elders. 2. Younger brothers and sisters: slaves or companions? 3. Do you still play dolls? Infantilism. 4. Authoritative and dictatorial attitude towards youth. 5. Teenage marriage - is it OK?   15.  Love, Gender relationship, Problems   1.   Men and Women: are they equal? 2.   Respect for the other gender. 3.   Teenage love: what is it? 4.   Flirting: Is it more than a game? 5.   Love or sex: which is more important? 6.   Rape: how to avoid it. Consequences, how to deal with it. 7.   Abortion: guilty or misfortunate? 8.   AIDS and STD: What is the best protection? 9.   Premarital sex. Is it ok to have it? 10. Adultery: harm and consequences. 11. Hey beautiful - want a lift? (Riding with strangers). 12. How to keep love in marriage? 13. “Do you love me” check. 14. Homosexualism. 15. Discrimination against woman in education, at work, at home: how to stop? 16. Economic independence of Women: should we strive for it? 17. How to become loved? 18. Parting with one’s party. 19. How to make friends with a person you like. 20. How to bring up a real man. 21. How to bring up a real woman. 22. Fear to another gender. 23. Jealousy: a sign of love or a lack of trust? 24. Amazons: a strong woman. Feminism. 25. Old love doesn’t get rusty? 26. «Who’s picture is in your album?» Should we tell about all that was before? 27. Do men cry? 28. Does a gift make one obliged?   16.  Topics for Children   1. How to confess a fault. 2. Name calling: why people make names a target for fun. 3. Stealing. 4. Betrayal as a violation of the trust. 5. Jealousy to the elder kids. 6. Envy vs. jealousy. 7. The hero and the coward - how to overcome a fear? 8. Capricious kid. 9. Computer games.      II.  Personal Topics:   1. Ethics, Morality (general topics):   1.   Instincts: are we animals? 2.   Asceticism. 3.   Is it ok to be sentimental? 4.   To see only the good: naivety or wisdom? 5.   Sacrifice: do we really know how to offer? 6.   Kindness: real and fake. 7.   Goal justifies means. Is that always true? 8.   “Let there be flood after me”. Do we care about consequences? 9.   How to grow the sense of beauty. 10. Is it shameful to blush? 11. Why do we need a sense of a shame? 12. Intellectual or sly?

2.  Virtues, Qualities

1.   Conscience: an asset or a hindrance? 2.   How to become a tactful person. 3.   How to learn patience. 4.   Cleanliness: why it is important? 5.   The hero and the coward - fact or fiction? 6.   Is it okay to be different? External and internal differences. 7.   Should we strive for perfection? 8.   Punctuality: how to learn it. 9.   Praising. Should we praise each other? 10. “I have a secret”. Openness. 11. Humility (humbleness): how to learn it. 12. How to develop virtues. 13. Hospitality: why it is important. 14. Concentration or absent-mindedness. 15. How to become attentive.   3.  Shortcomings, Vices   1.   To smoke or not to smoke. 2.   Drug addiction - how to avoid it. 3.   The first glass of alcohol: how to say no. 4.   Truth, dishonesty and lies. 5.   When the boss asks you to lie. 6.   Stealing. 7.   Backbiting. 8.   Swearing. 9.   Is greed a vice? 10. Hatred: Origin, danger, relief. 11. "An eye for an eye" vs. "Let them slap the other cheek". 12. Envy vs. jealousy. 13. Jealousy: a sign of love or a lack of trust? 14. Betrayal as a violation of the trust. 15. Using one's body to earn a living. Prostitution. 16. What is sin and how can we atone for it? 17. Girl's fights: who is the winner? 18. Kindness should be with fists? 19. Strength of spirit or strength of muscles? 20. Bragging, showing off: nice shortcoming or a vice? 21. Broken promises: consequences. 22. Slang: funny habit or making your mouth dirty. 23. Gambling: is it okay to try? 24. Suspicion and trust. 25. To be offended: is it shameful? 26. Slander: information or denunciation? Tattle Tail, Snitch or Informant? 27. Proud or Haughty? 28. Boredom: does it exist? 29. Idolizing: natural search for ideal or blind following? 30. Disco fever: love to music or fanaticism? 31. “Eschew the company of the ungodly”: why should we? 32. Freedom or undue familiarity? 33. Ego: virtue or vice? 34. Why do we complain? 35. Intrigues and hidden behavior. 36. “I have a secret”. Openness. 37. Hooliganism. 38. Pulp fiction: is it okay to read? 39. Empty chat or Let’s talk business? 40. Manipulation: interference into one’s life. 41. High-born swaggering. 42. Absent-mindedness. How to learn concentration. 43. Vandalism. 44. Collecting: real and fanatical. 45. Should we judge others? 46. Melancholy. Is it okay to be sad?   III. Topics for gender, social and age groups:

1. School Teachers:

1.   Are there stupid kids and clever kids? 2.   Teacher’s unrest: how to avoid it? 3.   Rebel kids: how to deal with them. 4.   Parents accuse teacher in their kid’s misbehavior. What to do? 5.   Parents and teachers: collaboration. How to establish it. 6.   School bullies. How to stop them. 7.   Stealing at school: how to prevent it. 8.   Smoking at school: how to prevent it. 9.   Alcohol at school: how to prevent it. 10. Drugs at school: how to prevent it. 11. Fighting at school: how to prevent it. 12. War between school gangs: how to prevent it. 13. Sexual problems between students: how to deal with them. 14. Sexual problems between teachers and students: how to deal with them. 15. Sexual problems between teachers: how to deal with them. 16. Punishment at school: what is the limit? 17. Reward at school: criteria. 18. Consultation: how to teach it. 19. Striving for best marks: is it okay? 20. Suicide among students: how to prevent it. 21. Nerds: how to treat them? 22. New trends in pedagogy. Or: stay conservative? 23. What if the teacher doesn’t fit to be a teacher? 24. How to teach to be creative? 25. Computerheads: is it okay? 26. School teachers’ salary: is it fair? 27. How to teach love. 28. Nicknames, calling names at school: how to stop it. 29. Harassed kids: why they are harassed? How to deal with them. 30. «I love my teacher». Attraction to the teacher: is it a problem? 31. How to develop an intellect? 32. How to teach morals? 33. How to teach students to care about consequences? 34. How to teach happiness?   2. Workers   1.   Should parents pay kids for work at home? 2.   How to teach your kids to earn money. 3.   Budget of the family: should children participate? 4.   Should little kids work? How to teach them to work. 5.   How to prepare yourself to work. 6.   Volunteer work for society: Do we need it? 7.   Quality of the work: is it more important than wages? 8.   Labor: joy or necessity? 9.   Making a bolt or building a ship: a real motivation. 10. Career: what is a real goal? Career or careerism (place-hunting). 11. Choosing a profession: what we love or what makes money? 12. Changing a profession: honest approach or search for an easy life? 13. Are there shameful jobs? Respect for one’s job. 14. Dirty money: does it spend differently? 15. Work and alcohol: is it a relief? 16. Work and breaks for smoking: does it help? 17. Mistake in a work: Tragedy or chance to grow? 18. Is my work friendly to nature? Work and nature, environment. 19. Job for those who are retired. Social help. 20. Work and rest. 21. Fruits of work: how to spend money wisely. 22. You are fired. What to do? 23. Women’s work: is it less important? 24. Economic independence of Women: should we strive for it? 25. Honest business: is it possible? 26. Unemployment: social insecurity or excuse not to work? 27. Lack of facilities: reason for pessimism or a challenge? 28. Black marketing: activity for the youth? 29. Moonlight job: way to earn more or a lack of professionalism? 30. Under The Table Labor (Grey Market Labor). 31. Microcredit: a chance to start your own business?   3.  Police   1.   How to raise children in respect to police? 2.   How to confess a sin? 3.   What if your parents break the law? 4.   What if your friends break the law? 5.   Policeman and cruelty: are they together? 6.   Police in the future: what will be its role? 7.   Law and Obedience or Freedom and Anarchy? 8.   Is it easy to be a policeman? Challenges. 9.   Honest policeman: how to stand temptations? 10. Self defense: where is the limit? 11. Using force: where is the limit? 12. Former bully becomes a policeman: a danger? 13. Former chicken becomes a policeman: to take revenge? 14. Police and drugs. 15. Careerism in the police. 16. Policeman breaks the law: consequences. 17. Inactivity of police: what is the result? Lone fighters. 18. Connections with mafia. 19. Collaboration with foreign police. 20. Collaboration with citizens. 21. To shoot or not to shoot? Using weapons: to prevent or to kill? 22. Penitentiary: a goal or an extreme case? 23. Police ethics: relationship with criminals? 24. Policeman can be killed. Is he/she afraid to go to his/her job? 25. My Dad/Mom is a policeman. Is it easy to be policeman’s children? 26. My husband/wife is a policeman. Is it easy to be a policeman’s spouse? 27. Does policeman’s job influence on his/her character? 28. Policeman and bribes. 29. Policeman and youth: why tension? How to achieve understanding? 30. Policeman and wages. 31. How to establish prestige of the police in the society?   4.  Women     I. A Woman and a Man: Relations, Love. 1. Patronizing attitude to women. 2. Feminism: what is it? 3. How to reach true equality? 4. Female logic: is it a myth made by men? 5. How to strengthen respect for women in the society? 6. Nobody wants to marry me …Why? 7. I love Michael and Kevin. They are friends… What should I do? 8. Men are like animals… Humiliating attitude to males. 9. How to get acquainted to a good man? 10. Premarital sex.   II. Family, Children, Education, Husband. 1. Why woman prefers to trust a stranger than her own husband? 2. Relations with the husband. You just don't understand me! 3. Woman is a first tutor of children. Great responsibility? 4. Women bring up future male parasites? 5. Children don't obey. 6. Is it easier to bring up the daughter than the son? 7. Women are overburdened. 8. I am free. To have an affair with a married man? 9. I am married, but fell in love with a man. Is love more important than being faithful? 10. Buy me a fur coat, buy me a necklace. 11. To marry on money. 12. Marriage to abroad. 13. Cheating in marriage. Reasons and consequences. 14. My husband is not faithful to me. What should I do? 15. Small lie to the husband: is it ok? 16. Whether it is necessary to tell the husband everything that was before?   III. Woman and Job. 1. Female labor: orange jacket. 2. Is there a thing like purely female job? 3. Family or career?   IV. Appearance, Behavior, Sex, Children. 1. Exploitation of a female image in commercials. 2. Hyper reaction destroys relations? 3. Life of a pretty woman: advantages and challenges. 4. Life of an ugly woman. 5. Sex in exchange for a fur coat? 6. Chastity: whether it is necessary to keep chastity if you are over 30?   V. Virtues and Evils. 1. Is it true that all women gossip? 2. Is it true that all women talk a lot? 3. Prostitution: is it true that former prostitutes become good wives? 4. It is fashionable to smoke? 5. Chastity: why virginity is necessary?   5. Aged People:   1. Marry after 60? 2. Small pension. 3. Loneliness. 4. I have so much to tell but nobody would listen… 5. My children don’t call me…   6. Pregnant Women:   1. Am I still attractive to my husband? 2. We are going to have an Ultra Sound: a boy or a girl? 3. Is my husband faithful to me while I am in the maternity hospital? 4. Will he marry me after I give birth to our child? 5. What if the child will be born handicapped? 6. Can I become a good mother? 7. One cigarette makes no harm? 8. One sip of alcohol makes no harm? 9. Can I watch horror films while I am pregnant?   And also topics for: physicians, businessmen, journalists, decision makers etc.     TOPICS FOR INDIA AND OTHER ASIAN COUNTRIES:   1. Cast system. Remnants of a cast system: old tradition or a heavy burden? 2. Child labor. 3. Child marriage. 4. Traditions: pillars of societal life or an obstacle for a new life?     MISCELLANEOUS:    1. Happy Hippo smiles (Satire of the Happy Hippo Show itself).