| Overall: | B |
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| Violence: | B |
| Sexual Content: | A |
| Language: | A- |
| Drugs/Alcohol: | A |
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After watching a movie with your children or students, we encourage parents and teachers to look for education opportunities to teach with movies. Here are a few discussion topics that can help with lesson plans or teaching in the home.
Why do you think Papa is often the comic relief character? Could Mama be seen in this same role?
An interesting family activity would be to watch the video and then read the story upon which it was based. Look for differences. Young viewers may find the story easier to read after watching the video.
Stan and Jan Berenstain met decades ago in art school, fell in love, married, had two boys, and started writing children’s books. Read all about them and their books at www.berenstainbears.com
See if anyone in your family is interested in writing a children’s story. You can use the Berenstain Bears characters, or create your own family. Who knows… you could have a popular line of books in a few years!

Donna Gustafson has been involved with her husband Rod's work since the
beginning. Handling many of the behind-the-scenes tasks, she also creates
preview pages for up-coming movies, acts as managing editor and occasionally writes reviews.