Tag Archives: financial management

Families in Society, Family Resource Management

This American Life

Title: This American Life

Date: 1999

Media type: Podcast

Format: Complete

TV Season-Episode: Family-Business

Category: Families in Society, Family Resource Management

Keywords: work and family, financial management

Rating: NR

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

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Stories of family businesses are discussed. The pressures of economics on families, especially when the members of the family help to run and manage the business.

Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: Why do economic pressures tend to harm relationships? Is there truth in the adage that you should never hire family? Why? How would you work with your own family?

Places to view: Hulu

Contributor: Ian Brunzell-Looney

Family Resource Management, Parenting

The Cosby Show

Title: The Cosby Show

Date: 1984

Media type: Television

Format: Episode

TV Season-Episode: Season 1, Episode 1, “Pilot”

Category: Parenting, Family Resource Management

Keywords: parent-child relationships, financial management

Rating: NR

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

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Cliff is sent in to Theo’s bedroom to show him how his current spending habits and academic results will hurt him in the future. He uses Monopoly as a tool to represent Theo’s finances.

Contributor: Micah Dalluge

Family Resource Management

Everybody Loves Raymond

Title: Everybody Loves Raymond

Date: 1998

Media type: Television

Format: Episode

TV Season-Episode: Season 2 Episode 16, “The Checkbook”

Category: Family Resource Management

Keywords: financial management

Rating: PG

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

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: When Ray is unappreciative of Debra’s efforts to maintain a proper checkbook and plan a budget, she asks him to take care of it. He ends up bouncing some important checks and the power is cut-off. He tries to borrow money from Robert and lies to him that Debra has spending issues. When he tries to rectify his mistakes with a fake checkbook and trying to put money in the bank before Debra realizes the situation, he is caught. Debra then takes over the house finance again.

Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: Is this a good or bad example of role delegation? How could Ray have properly handled the situations when he found his finances out of hand?

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

Contributor: Micah Dalluge