Tag Archives: response to crisis

Parenting

Shrek

Title: Shrek

Date: 2001

Media type: Film

Format: Complete

Category: Parenting

Keywords: response to crisis, types of parents

Rating: PG – Parental Guidance Suggested

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

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: When a green ogre named Shrek discovers his swamp has been ‘swamped’ with all sorts of fairytale creatures by the scheming Lord Farquaad, Shrek sets out with a very loud donkey by his side to ‘persuade’ Farquaad to give Shrek his swamp back. Instead, a deal is made. Farquaad, who wants to become the King, sends Shrek to rescue Princess Fiona, who is awaiting her true love in a tower guarded by a fire-breathing dragon. But once they head back with Fiona, it starts to become apparent that not only does Shrek, an ugly ogre, begin to fall in love with the lovely princess, but Fiona is also hiding a huge secret.

Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: How do Fiona’s try to protect her and it what ways did they end up putting her life in potential danger?

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

Contributor: Krista Hamann

Human Growth and Development

Tangled

Title: Tangled

Date: 2010

Media type: Film

Format: Complete

Category: Human Growth and Development

Keywords: Adolescence, decision making, response to crisis, family trauma

Rating: PG – Parental Guidance Suggested

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

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Baby Princess Rapunzel, who has been blessed with magical healing powers, is kidnapped in the middle of the night from the palace by Mother Gothel. Mother Gothel locks the growing Rapunzel up in a tower that is hidden away in the forest to keep others from accessing the healing powers of Rapunzel’s golden hair. Fast forward to Rapunzel as a teenager with 70-feet worth of golden hair, Princess Rapunzel becomes curious about the outside world. One day, Flynn Rider climbs the tower and holds Rapunzel captive. The pair strike a deal and Flynn Ryder agrees to show Rapunzel the place where the floating light come from. The pair go on a dangerous journey, and Rapunzel ends up finding out more about of herself than she ever imagined.

Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: Focus on Princess Rapunzel’s parents and what ways they continue to search for their daughter and how they never give up the faith that their daughter will be found.

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

Contributor: Krista Hamann

Human Growth and Development

Tarzan

Title: Tarzan

Date: 1999

Media type: Film

Format: Complete

Category: Human Growth and Development

Keywords: family relationship, family demographics, response to crises, social and cultural influences, types of parents

Rating: G – General Audiences

Audience(s): Children Under 12, Families

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Tarzan was an orphaned baby left in the jungle. An ape named Kala found him and raised him as his own. As Tarzan grew up, he believed that the animals were his family, that is until he saved an expeditioner named Jane Porter in the jungle. Tarzan is forced to choose who his family is, his animal friends or Jane.

Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: How did Tarzan’s development differ because he wasn’t raised by humans? How did Jane’s father’s opinions shape the way she reacted throughout the film?

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

Contributor: Krista Hamann