Parent's Movie Series summary

Goal: To help parents understand about the movies, fairy tales, and myths that are at their disposal to teach their children by and themselves. To have parents look into the ways their parents had hurt them and the traditions they are passing on to their own children. To cure the seeds of our society so we come across to a healthier emotionally sound community.

 

Day One: Finding Nemo
Duration: Two and Half Hours
Preparation: TV,VCR/DVD, Seating for kids and Adults, soda, chips and dip to keep sugar high and attention up.

In this lecture we will talk about the Pinnochio adventure through childhood before adolescence. How by the partial fault of the parent and the Child, the child gets sold into the circus as a donkey. Finding Nemo is a modern Gepeto’s tale in the subconscious of the father. A father healing himself to save his child. This movie will help parents become responsible for their lives before they hand on their problems to their child. Fix themselves, the save the child.

Day Two: Shark tale
Duration: Two and Half Hours
Preparation: TV, VCR/DVD, seating for kids and adults, soda, chips and dip to keep sugar high and attention up.

In this lecture we will learn about one character in many parts. A Jungian study of the many facets that make up our personality. The film takes place in the water, symbol of the subconscious. Here we will see the Will Smith fish play the fool who emerges the hero of the ego, the shark who wants to be a vegetarian as the inner child, the fish who loves the Will Smith character as the healthy mother image from childhood, and the negative seductive anima fish who opposes her. These all have to confront the Deniro Godshark father who does not accept his son as the Dragon who blocks the growth of the child’s natural talents and ambitions. Parents will be asked to go home and write an essay on how they block the ambitions and talents of their child; or do not. Are the ambitions and talents their child’s or their own? How did their own parents support them?

Day Three: Marry Poppins
Duration: Two and Half Hours
Preparation: TV, VCR/DVD, Seating for children and adults, soda, chips and dip to keep the sugar high and attention up.

In this lecture we will study the affects of the Woman Suffrage movement and the rise of the middle class in the western world. Women were given the right to become more like the men, but the men were not allowed to become more like the women. The lopsidedness affect and how it hurt the children. That resulted in today’s goal oriented parents that schedule out every second of their child’s life so both of them can have careers. Leaving others to raise their children. In this movie we will see how Mary Poppins and a Chimney Sweep save the children and the parents also. Then once the family is saved, how they save the community. The parents are asked to go home and become self introspective and see if one of their parents acted as the emotional grounding needed during hard times, or were they both more interested in success. Was their mother or father harder on them about grades, status, and personal wealth. How are they with their own children?

Day Four: AI
Duration: Two and Half Hours
Preparation: TV, VCR/DVD,Seating for adults (Children brought under discretion of parents), soda, chips and dip to keep the sugar high and attention up.

In this lecture we will see the dark side of parenting in this dismal version of the Pinnochio story. Here we will see what happens when the child is refused by the parents and ends up in a self destructive circus designed for the amusement of others. What happens when a child is abandoned of healthy sex roles in childhood. How that child remains a child forever, stuck in his own fairy tale world.

Day Five: The Return
Duration: Two Hours
Preparation: Request sheets filled and fulfilled, Plates and utensils, Extra Garbage cans, seating with round 36” tables, and T.V.,
VCR/DVD.

Four months later I will return to see how the Parents and Children are doing on their journey. We will recap on the previous lectures. Tell each other our lives stories since the last time we met. Find our growth and blockades. We will watch the movie Raccoon’s Christmas. We will see how people can teach others to save their fathers, to save our communities. To teach and not confront. The duration after this half hour film will be a round table discussion on how to better ourselves, families, and communities. A early branch of Christian’s called Gnostics felt it was their duty to raise children of the light to have communities that would fill with that light. The light that one person found outside of that ancient cave Plato talked about. Maybe one day we will all become awake from the Matrix and not have our screams power others as in Monster Inc.

* After the fifth lecture in any of these series, the students are welcome to personal counseling if they so desire. To promote and create friendships from advisor to peers. Hopefully one day, to teachers.