Category Archives: Parenting

Parenting

Interstellar

Title: Interstellar

Date: 2014

Media type: Film

Category: Parenting

Keywords: parent-child relationships

Rating: PG-13

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

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Earth is coming to an end and it is up to one man and a team of four other humans and two robots to find another planet that’s capable of life. Their plan is move everyone on Earth to this new planet before nature takes its course and destroys all life on Earth. The man is a father of two, a son and a daughter. He decides to accept this mission to travel out of Earth and leaves behind his children with their grandfather. His daughter, whom he has a strong relationship with will not accept his leave, and denies seeing him for the last time before departure. She holds a very deep grudge against her father, and didn’t realize that her left to save not only the lives of his family, but the lives of everyone on Earth.

Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: How did leaving affect his daughter? How did she overcome how she felt about her dad? Was were the reasons behind both perspectives of the two characters?

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

Contributor: Amy Her

Parenting

Blended

Title: Blended

Date: 2014

Media type: Film

Format: Clip

Category: Parenting

Keywords: types of parent (stepparents)

Rating: PG-13

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

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Lauren, divorced, and Jim, widowed, meet at a blind date. The date does not go well but the two continuously bumped into each other. Both of their families took a family trip to Africa by a coincidence. Lauren and Jim spends time with each other’s family making them closer to their own children. The two develop a relationship in Africa with the support of the children.

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Clip Description: Lauren’s sons spends a day with Jim. Her youngest has trouble with baseball; he throws a fit whenever he cannot hit the ball. Jim is patient and slowly helps him to improve his baseball skills. Lauren’s oldest son is protective and does not enjoy Jim’s company. Jim decides to take him on a boxing match to teach him a few lessons about aggression. Both of the boys develop a close bond to Jim.

Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: How did Jim help Lauren’s sons’ to improve on their aggression? What brought Jim to also help Lauren’s oldest son? During the boxing lesson, what brought Lauren’s son to respect Jim?

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

Contributor: Paying Lee

Internal Dynamics of Families, Parenting

The Babadook

Title: The Babadook

Date: 2014

Media type: Film

Category: Parenting, Internal Dynamics of Families

Keywords: parent-child relationships, types of parent (single), stress and coping, conflict management

Rating: R

Audience(s): College Age, Parents, Adults

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: A stressed, single mom cares for her disillusioned son after the death of her husband. She lives her life only to make her child feel comfortable and normal in his surroundings. They come upon a children’s book called The Babadook and encounter strange experiences. The mom was able to cope with her husband’s death from the lesson of being consumed by grief.

Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: What would be a more approachable technique to discuss about Samuel’s father’s room? Besides being furious at her son, how could Amelia disciplined him instead of yelling in front of her coworker? How should Amelia cope with the death of her husband besides leaving all of his belonging in one room?

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

Contributor: Paying Lee