Tag Archives: family relationships

Internal Dynamics of Families

Cheaper by the Dozen

Title: Cheaper by the Dozen

Date: 2003

Media type: Film

Rating: PG

Audience(s): Children Under 12, High School Age, Parents, Family

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Cheaper by the Dozen follows Tom and Kate Baker and their twelve children as they move from a rural Illinois town to a suburb of Chicago. Tom gets his dream job as a college football coach, and Kate, a retired journalist, gets her first book published. As their work schedules intensify, Tom and Kate’s presence at home decreases, and their family life becomes increasingly chaotic, which forces them to learn to balance their work and family life in order to foster positive parent-child relationships.

Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: For portrayal of Family Stress and the ability to overcome it, Authoritative Parenting Style, parenting different age groups-adolescence, middle childhood, early childhood, How to juggle work and family

Places to view: Youtube, Amazon Video, Vudu, Google Play, Itunes

Contributor: Sarah Ambrose

Internal Dynamics of Families, Parenting

The Joy Luck Club

Title: The Joy Luck Club

Date: 1993

Media type: Film

Format: Complete

Category: Internal Dynamics of Families, Parenting

Keywords: family relationships, conflict management, parent-child relationships

Rating: R

Audience(s): College Age, Adults

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Through a series of flashbacks, four young chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China, explore their past. This search will help them understand their difficult mother/daughter relationship.

Contributor: Anonymous

Ethical Issues and Dilemmas, Internal Dynamics of Families

A Home of Our Own

Title: A Home of Our Own

Date: 1993

Media type: Film

Category: Internal Dynamics of Families, Ethical Issues and Dilemmas

Keywords: family relationships, dilemmas

Rating: PG

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

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: The story is located in Los Angeles in the sixties. An energetic widow, Frances Lacey, with her six children try to make a dream of theirs come true: to have a home of their own. Therefore they leave Los Angeles and head for the countryside, while facing all kinds of difficulties during their journey.

Places to view: Amazon Video, Itunes

Contributor: Anonymous