Tag Archives: parenting styles

Parenting

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Title: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Date: 2001

Media type: Film

Format: Clip

Category: Parenting

Keywords: parenting styles

Rating: PG

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

Language: English

Comment or Recommendations for Teaching: The Dursley’s use very different parenting styles for Harry and Dudley, what are they? What is the reasoning for the styles given? What would be the outcomes possibly expected for the relationship between Dudley and his parents? Harry and his aunt and uncle? Harry and his cousin?

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

Contributor: Aubree

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wqWRNsu7iI

Families in Society, Parenting

Stepmom

Title: Stepmom

Date: 1998

Media type: Film

Format: Clip

Category: Families in Society, Parenting

Keywords: family types, divorce, remarriage, parenting styles, types of parent, step parent, biological

Rating: PG-13

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

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Father of two children remarries younger woman; she adjusts to being a stepmother, the biological mother adjusts to another woman parenting her children.

Clip Description: The dad is at the park with his son and daughter and they are launching a remote control boat on the pond.  The kids are asking him about their stepmom and why he and their mother got a divorce.

Places to view: Only available for purchase

Contributor: Kevin M. Green

Families in Society, Internal Dynamics of Families, Interpersonal Relationships, Parenting

The Kids are Alright

Title: The Kids are Alright

Date: 2010

Media type: Movie

Format: Complete

Category: Families in Soceity, Internal Dynamics of Families, Interpersonal Relationships, Parenting

Keywords: family types (LGBT), family relationship, conflict management, parenting styles

Rating: R

Audience(s): Adults

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: The teenage children of a maried lesbian couple decide they want to meet their biological father. The children’s mothers each gave birth to one of the siblings using the same sperm donor. The children get the mans information from the sperm bank and reach out to him. The three spend more and more time together which one of their mothers does not like. As the children’s father spends more time with their family a trist developes between one of the children’s mothers. Eventually the family comes back together and mend the damage that was done. The father is then blocked out by all of the family members. The movie ends with the family taking the elder daughter to college.

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Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: What rights does the sperm donor have in regards to the children (i.e. when he takes the daughter out on the motorcycle though their mom forbid it)? How should the family deal with the revelation of the mother’s infadelity? Is the father to blame for the harm that befalls the family? Why?

Contributor: Ian Brunzell-Looney