Tag Archives: parent-child relationships

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

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

Human Growth and Development, Parenting

Modern Family

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?

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

Contributor: Paying Lee