Pop Parenting

This week on Pop Parenting Avrum and Ellie watched and are now discussing the Kevin Costner movie Field of Dreams. We are using it to explore ideas around making amends after someone has passed away, parenting in 2021, the beauty of a flexible supportive marriage and how to make progress in a dysfunctional family system. Next week: 16 Candles

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This week on Pop Parenting we are looking at the 1988 hit movie Rainman. This movie leads us to tracking the growth of the main character Charlie Babbitt, played by Tom Cruise, and how in order to actually grow up and get a life, Charlie has to drop his guard, get vulnerable and understand what it means to be part of a family. We look at emotional cutoff, the quieter twin to physical cut off, and we decide on a movie for the next episode so you can all watch it before we record! Check out Field of Dreams next week.

Click here to check out Avrum's new book "Where Would You Like To Start?"

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This week on Pop Parenting Ellie and Avrum are looking at the movie Parenthood with Steve Martin. We are seeing 3 generations of anxiety and coping systems in this movie, and we are speaking about siblings, stress, fathers and sons and how our unfinished business starts family fires. We also delve into the prevalence of anxious therapists, and Avrum’s deep love of Oreos.

Click here to check out Avrum's new book "Where Would You Like To Start?"

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Hi This is Ellie, this week on Pop Parenting we welcomed our first guest host Immanuel Marsh, co-host of the podcast So, Tell Me About Your Mother, therapist, teacher, counsellor and minister in Alabama. Avrum, Immanuel and Ellie are together talking about the 1991 John Singleton movie Boyz N The Hood and discussing masculine energy, the roles of fathers and mothers, the Torah as it pertains to cycles of violence and how each family carries its own unique brand of stress.

Click here to check out Avrum's new book "Where Would You Like To Start?"

Click here to learn more about The Yetta Nashman Jewish Family Institute

Click here to check out Immanuel's podcast So, Tell Me About Your Mother

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This week Avrum and Ellie are talking about the movie Dead Poets Society. They are asking about what happens when parents can no longer tell themselves apart from their children. And,  noticing that this movie hits, different, after the passing of Robin Williams.

This week Avrum and Ellie are re-watching the film Footloose and discussing death, dancing and divorce. They're asking what happens when parents try to control their children's every move and is that actually focusing on the wrong issues?

This week on Pop Parenting we checked out the cult favourite “The Lost Boys”. A beloved, kitschy and weird ode to the 80s vampire obsession. Avrum and Ellie are exploring the themes of “chosen families”, dealing with loss, and feeling lost, and wondering why during this era vampires were such a thing. Here we go.

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This week on Pop Parenting The 5 Books of the Breakfast Club ends with the last character we see raising his arm in triumph… “Bender” played by Judd Hersh is the rebel without a pause, he’s rude, loud, complicated and clearly hurting. In this episode Avrum and Ellie are talking about generational anger and domestic violence, how to break a pattern, and was Bender’s blond joke ever finished?

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This week on Pop Parenting we are on the 4th of the 5 teen characters in the breakfast club. "Brian" played by Anthony Michael Hall is the quintessential “nerd”...gets good grades and does what his parents tell him, but brings a gun to school. We are delving into searching for simple solutions when faced with complex problems, as well as are we asking right questions as parents and partners in our lives? 

Trigger warning, we do briefly address the topic of suicide.

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This week on Pop Parenting - The 5 Books of the Breakfast Club continues with Ally Sheedy’s character Allison who is “ignored”. Avrum asks if we can really trust only the viewpoint of a child in working out solutions, and Ellie asks if it actually might be a good thing to ignore your kids. We also delve into remembering our parents were also people and how we see “parenting” as a verb rather than a noun. 

Click here to check out Avrum's new book "Where Would You Like To Start?"

Click here to learn more about The Yetta Nashman Jewish Family Institute

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