The Movie Parenthood

Parenthood is about 5 separate immediate families that are also apart of a larger family unit. Each family has their own struggles they are dealing with, but it wouldn’t be a Hollywood movie if they didn’t all together at the end for a happily ever after. Parenthood shows a lot of different parenting styles within each family unit as well as issues that may come up in families. Some that are shown in this movie are disagreements on parenting children, issues with raising a child with behavioral problems, being a single mom of 2 teenagers, and grandparents taking care of their grandchildren as their own. These are just 4 of the main parenting related circumstances seen through out the movie, but there are many more. Almost every parenting style is demonstrated in this movie from authoritative to indifferent parenting they can all …show more content…
To me that is all parenting is, you try to be perfect and then a wrench gets thrown in to things and makes a big mess, then you work on putting everything back together. I think the one thing I learned from one of the families who has a daughter that is a genius, the dad spends all of his time making sure she is studying or learning new things, that he places his daughters needs above his wife’s. He wouldn’t communicate with her about things that affected the whole family. I can see how having a child with a high IQ can make things a little challenging in the home, but I want to remember to always communicate with my spouse, especially when it comes to making decisions about the children. Everyone is the movie changed in some way for the better, for instance with one of the families, the parents learned to communicate with each other what their wants and needs. This in turn affected the way they raised their daughter, and she was given more opportunities to be a kid, verses studying all of the