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This article investigates the intergenerational family interactions during verbal disagreements at mealtime. These exchanges offer a psychosocial and cultural view of the socialization rules transferred from parents to children. The study aims to reconstruct argumentative schemes in discursive exchanges between parents and children during family mealtime. The corpus of data consists of 30 video-recorded meals of 10 Swiss and Italian families. A selection of 132 argumentative discussions, carried out according to previously established procedures and criteria, was selected for a pragma-dialectical analysis of the mobilized argumentative schemes, that is to reconstruct the participants’ privileged modalities during mealtime discussions. The results show that parents and children adopt different types of schemes related to the link between the object of discussion and the arguments in terms of symptomatic, causal, and analogy relation. The study helps to shed light on the knowledge of how family members interact with each other during their argumentative exchanges. The reconstruction of the argument schemes used by adults and children is a fruitful way to examine the management of disagreements by family members.