Title: Modern Family

Date: 2009

Media type: Television

Format: Clip

TV Season-Episode: Season 4, Ep. 24

Category: Parenting, Human Growth and Development

Keywords: parent-child relationships, adulthood

Rating: TV-PG

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

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: This modern family shows the diversity of families involved with one another. There is the family of young teenage children, jumbling to get everything to be perfect. Another family where the grandpa is married to a young, Columbian woman and a mature young teen. A family that consists of a homosexual couple and an adopted daughter.

Clip Start Time: 0.7375

Clip Description: Phil fulfills his mom’s last wishes by meeting the woman that his mom admires. His mom’s wish was to set up the woman and his dad together after his mom’s passing. Phil mentions his mom after talking to the woman.

Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: What would bring Phil to grant this wish from his mother? Is it too soon to be finding his dad another woman? Phil mentions his mother and is reminded by her kindness; besides fulfilling his mom’s wish, what other activities could he be involved in to help cope with his mom’s passing?

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Contributor: Paying Lee