Pop Parenting

This week on Pop Parenting we come back to The Breakfast Club and look at the character played by Emilio Estevez “Andrew” the jock/star athlete who is in detention for torturing another kid and under pressure from his father to be the best. Avrum and Ellie use his story to talk about Fathers and Sons, Unrealized hopes and dreams that parents put on their children, second marriages, definition of success and the importance of taking personal responsibility for all of your relationships good and bad, and how to know if what you are doing is parenting or just putting your anxiety onto your kids, family or relationships.

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In this weeks episode of Pop Parenting Avrum and Ellie are watching the Breakfast Club for the 4 millionth time and picking on Claire. Molly Ringwald's character is wealthy, snobby, fashionable and frustrated and a perfect opening to seeing what all of the teens in this movie are struggling with. We dig into family triangles, whether all parents are at fault for their kids issues and how to change generations of anxiety. 

When parents are absent and/or abusive, a wise elder can step in and provide a young person with guidance, wisdom and a loving kick in the ass. Also in an ode to the incredible Robyn Williams and the character of Sean he plays in the film Good Will Hunting, Avrum and Ellie wax poetic about the myth of the “united front” of parenting, how wise elders come into being, a healthy breaking of boundaries, and how not to start off a session with a client...here we go:

This week on Pop Parenting**  we tackle one of our all-time favourite films: "Less Than Zero".  When Avrum posted about this episode here's what he said: 

Questions to be tackled:

1. How to set boundaries when your child is freebasing cocaine?

2. Is it possible for a drug dealer to have useful life principles? If so, what?

3. Is it possible to love and worry about your children too much? If so, what are the possible outcomes?

In this episode of Pop Parenting we are talking about the movie “Some Kind of Wonderful” by John Hughes, Avrum pushes the conversation into religion and freedom, we talk about The Maiden King and spiritual awakenings, parents who live vicariously through their kids, our present day emotional immaturity and its effect on societal regression, how to have a healthy family fight and Ellie’s teenage wallpaper.

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This week  in Pop Parenting  we are discussing "Wise Elders", Iona's iconic fashion sense in Pretty in Pink and how we all long for a good leader...

This episode of Pop Parenting, Avrum and Ellie are geeking out on one of the canon movies from the 80’s “Pretty in Pink”. What do our parents teach us about love through osmosis and how do we pass this on to our kids? What do we do when we have to parent our parents? 

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In the episode Avrum and Ellie do a short recap of some of the ideas we looked at in Ferris Bueller's Day off, we hear about Avrum's new book "Where Would You Like to Start" with his late supervisor Dr. David Freeman, and take a look at how to deal with anxiety and uncertainty in sending our kids back to school in a pandemic. 

Today’s Pop Parenting with Avrum Nadigel and Ellie Bass we are watching Cameron in Ferris Buellers Day Off both melt down and wake up, and understand the family system he’s been caught in. Who were his parents and how do we change the patterns of interaction in our families?

Avrum and Ellie are getting nerdy and intense about understanding parenting using Ferris Bueller as our example, was he a freedom fighter or master manipulator? What was happening in that family dynamic that speaks to setting boundaries with our kids, and how siblings feel about different parenting styles and choices...