Tag Archives: single parenting

The Edge of 17

Title: The Edge of 17

Date: 2016

Media type: Film

Format: Complete

Category: Human Growth and Development

Keywords: single parenting, response to crisis, sibling relationships

Rating: R – Restricted

Audience(s): College Age, Adults, Couples

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Everyone knows that growing up is hard, and life is no easier for high school junior Nadine (Hailee Steinfeld), who is already at peak awkwardness when her all-star older brother Darian (Blake Jenner) starts dating her best friend Krista (Haley Lu Richardson). All at once, Nadine feels more alone than ever, until the unexpected friendship of a thoughtful boy (Hayden Szeto) gives her a glimmer of hope that things just might not be so terrible after all. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1878870/?ref_=nv_sr_1)

Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: How had being left virtually parentless affected Nadine?

Places to view: iTunes, YouTube, Google Play, Amazon Video, Vudu

Contributor: Krista Hamann

Hidden Figures

Title: Hidden Figures

Date: 2016

Media type: Film

Format: Complete

Category: Internal Dynamics of Families

Keywords: family demographics, family relationship, parenting styles, single parenting, work and family

Rating: PG – Parental Guidance Suggested

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

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Based on the unbelievably true life stories of three of these women, known as “human computers”, we follow these women as they quickly rose the ranks of NASA alongside many of history’s greatest minds specifically tasked with calculating the momentous launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, and guaranteeing his safe return. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented them in U.S. history as true American heroes. (Taraji P. Henson – Katherine G. Johnson, Octavia Spencer – Dorothy Vaughan, Janelle Monae – Mary Jackson (engineer)) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4846340/?ref_=nv_sr_1)

Places to view: Google Play, YouTube

Contributor: Krista Hamann

Princess Diaries

Title: Princess Diaries

Date: 2001

Media type: Film

Format: Complete

Category: Human Growth and Development

Keywords: adolescence, communication, single parenting, parenting styles, parent-child relationship

Rating: G – General Audiences

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

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Mia Thermopolis lives the epitome of a normal life. She is a geek, sweet, and invisible to anyone but her mother, her best friend Lilly, and Lilly’s older brother Michael. Her biggest challenge in life is making it through a day of high school without throwing up. One day, Mia’s grandmother from Genovia shows up and invites her to tea. At tea, Mia finds out that she is the heir to the throne of Genovia, a European Country. One minute she is a regular teenager, the text moment, she is royalty. Suddenly, Mia’s life becomes much more complicated. After school she is learning about how to dance, how to walk and talk like a lady, what fork to eat a salad with, and how to be the perfect princess. She also gets a makeover and a bodyguard, Joe; two things she never anticipated to happen in her life. The media finds out who she is and makes her life all the more complicated. Will Mia decide to be a princess, or will she abandon Genovia in its time of need and continue on the path of the typical teenager?

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

Contributor: Krista Hamann