| Overall: | B |
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| Violence: | B |
| Sexual Content: | B |
| Language: | B+ |
| Drugs/Alcohol: | A |
| Run Time: | 98 |
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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.
What are some actual instances when the members of the Baker family help each other? What examples can you think of where they criticize and speak negatively of each other?
Why are parents often portrayed as incompetent in movies? Do mothers or fathers fall into that stereotype most frequently?
For more information on the original family this premise is based upon, check this page: http://gilbrethnetwork.tripod.com/front.html.
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About the Reviewer: Rod Gustafson
Rod Gustafson has worked in various media industries since 1977. He founded Parent Previews in 1993, and today continues to write and broadcast the reviews in newspapers, on radio and (of course) on the Internet. He currently serves as the President of the Alberta Association for Media Awareness, a provincial non-profit society. He also authors a regular column for The Parent's Television Council in Los Angeles. He and his wife Donna have four children.
