Category Archives: Family Resource Management

Family Resource Management, Parenting

The Cosby Show

Title: The Cosby Show

Date: 1984

Media type: Television

Format: Episode

TV Season-Episode: Season 1, Episode 1, “Pilot”

Category: Parenting, Family Resource Management

Keywords: parent-child relationships, financial management

Rating: NR

Audience(s): Children Under 12, High School Age, College Age, Adults, Families

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Cliff is sent in to Theo’s bedroom to show him how his current spending habits and academic results will hurt him in the future. He uses Monopoly as a tool to represent Theo’s finances.

Contributor: Micah Dalluge

Family Resource Management

Everybody Loves Raymond

Title: Everybody Loves Raymond

Date: 1998

Media type: Television

Format: Episode

TV Season-Episode: Season 2 Episode 16, “The Checkbook”

Category: Family Resource Management

Keywords: financial management

Rating: PG

Audience(s): High School Age, College Age, Adults, Couples, Parents, Families

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: When Ray is unappreciative of Debra’s efforts to maintain a proper checkbook and plan a budget, she asks him to take care of it. He ends up bouncing some important checks and the power is cut-off. He tries to borrow money from Robert and lies to him that Debra has spending issues. When he tries to rectify his mistakes with a fake checkbook and trying to put money in the bank before Debra realizes the situation, he is caught. Debra then takes over the house finance again.

Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: Is this a good or bad example of role delegation? How could Ray have properly handled the situations when he found his finances out of hand?

Places to view: Amazon Video, Vudu, Itunes, Hulu

Contributor: Micah Dalluge

Family Resource Management, Parenting

The Pursuit of Happyness

Title: The Pursuit of Happyness

Date: 2006

Media type: Film

Format: Complete

Category: Parenting, Family Resource Management

Keywords: types of parent (single), parent-child relationships, goal-setting, financial management

Rating: PG-13

Audience(s): High School Age, College Age, Parents, Adults

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Chris Gardner (Will Smith) invests his family’s life savings into buying portable bone density scanner that he hopes to sell to doctors and clinics in the San Fransico area. When no one buys them and the family is out of money, Chris’s wife leaves him and their 5 year old son. In an attempt to make a better life for him and his son, Chris looks to take on a job as a stockbroker, but before he can be considered for a position, he has to complete a 6 month unpaid internship. The film follows Chris and his son as they battle issues of poverty common to many families such as losing their house, moving in and out of homeless shelters, and living one the streets.

Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: What are some of the most prevalent struggles Chris and his son face? What are some of the issues Chris and his son face that are similar to other families, but are made more challenging from their impoverished situation? As portrayed in the movie, in what ways does poverty test the parent-child relationship?

Contributor: Carly Baumann