All posts by Paying Lee

Families in Society, Internal Dynamics of Families

Avalon

Title: Avalon

Date: 1990

Media type: Film

Category: Families in Society, Internal Dynamics of Families

Keywords: social and cultural influences, family relationship

Rating: PG

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

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: A Polish-Jewish family comes to the USA at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land. (IMDB, imdb.com/title/tt0099073/)

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

Contributor: Leidy Kasper

Families in Society, Internal Dynamics of Families

Eve’s Bayou

Title: Eve’s Bayou

Date: 1997

Media type: Film

Category: Families in Society, Internal Dynamics of Families

Keywords: social and cultural influences, family relationship

Rating: R

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

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: The film follows 10-year-old Eve Batistein 1960’s Lousiana. After finding her father cheating with a family friend, Eve’s world is transformed into a world of voodoo magic and other ancient rituals.

Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: How do the roles of each family member in Eve’s family change as the movie goes on? Why does Eve feel the need to take on the ‘parent’ role?

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

Contributor: Leidy Kasper

Health and Human Sexuality, Parenting

The Moth Podcast

Title: The Moth Podcast

Date: 2014

Media type: Podcast

Format: Complete

TV Season-Episode: “The Conversation”

September 30, 2014

Category: Parenting, Human Sexuality, Human Growth and Development

Keywords: middle childhood, communication

Rating: N/A

Audience(s): College Age, Adults, Parents

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: A mother describes the initial shock of having “the conversation” about sex with her 8 year old daughter. She desribes her own experience of the conversation with her mother when she was younger and her hasitation to have it with her daughter when she started asking questions. She realized though that unlike the conversation she had with her mother in which the information was piled on all at once, this was a topic better spread out over several conversations because what is important is not a single discussion, but rather the on going conversation.

Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: How was the story teller’s experience of “the conversation” with her mother different than the one she wanted to have with her daughter? What are some of the outcomes for both mother and daughter of having an ongoing conversation about sex rather than one single conversation that is jam packed with information?

Contributor: Carly Baumann