Tag Archives: parenting styles

Internal Dynamics of Families, Parenting

Portlandia

Title: Portlandia

Date: 2012

Media type: Television

Format: Episode

TV Season-Episode: Season2,Ep.4

Category: Internal Dynamics in Families, Parenting

Keywords: family relationship, parenting styles

Rating: TV-14

Audience(s): College Age, Adults

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Brendan and Michelle Marston worry about getting their young son Grover into a well respected pre-school. As the sketch progresses it becomes more and more apparent that Grover’s parents are probably too concerned with his education and may be a bit over involved while still managing to be distant from him.

Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: Why are Grover’s parents so concerned about Grover’s educational career at such an early age? Though this clip is tongue in cheek what points does it raise about our society when considering our relationship to education and the perceived benefits of being schooled at one place as opposed to another?

Places to view: Youtube, Amazon Video, Google Play, Itunes, ifc.com/shows/portlandia

Contributor: Ian Brunzell-Looney

Families in Society, Parenting

Women of Brewster Place

Title: Women of Brewster Place

Date: 1989

Media type: Television

Category: Families in Society, Parenting

Keywords: family demographics, parenting styles

Rating: NR

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

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: From the novel by Gloria Naylor, follows the life of Mattie Michael from her parental home to life on Brewster Place in Chicago of the 1960s. Focuses on single-parenting and women’s networks of social support. Addresses issues of gender, race, class, and sexuality.

Places to view: Youtube

Contributor: Libby Balter Blume, PhD, CFLE

Families in Society, Family Resource Management, Human Growth and Development, Internal Dynamics of Families, Interpersonal Relationships, Parenting

Parenthood

Title: Parenthood

Date: 1989

Media type: Film

Category: Parenting

Keywords: parenting styles

Rating: PG-13

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

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: The families of four adult siblings demonstrate the lighter side of the roller coaster of parenting.

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

Contributor: Susan Walker