If you think about it in the media there are so many different portrayals of

parenting of raising kids I grew up watching things like family affair which was I think an uncle and his his

butler mr French raising the kids the Partridge family there is mom and dad and

they each had three kids you know first major TV show with a

blended family and then Bonanza with Ben Cartwright and his sons I'm trying to

think Danny I don't know of too many shows I watched Robin Laura I guess on Mary Tyler Moore or

maybe Lucy and Desi I'm really dating myself here.

Little House on the Prairie.

Well there you go. Yes, little house. Thank you. There's a good one for us. The point is that we love stories. There are a lot of good stories in TV and movies about raising kids, but most of us don't experience life quite like that. I'm John Fuller in the studio with

Dr Danny Huerta who heads up our focus on the family parenting team. I'm talking

media what's coming to mind is I'm reminiscing about the good old days?

Oh well I think youcing about the good old days.

Well, I think you have a really good point though, John.

It really portrays an unrealistic resolution to a lot of family problems.

They do present the issues and then all of a sudden there's this quick fix and then whoop and then there we are and we're done.

And it's such a long slog sometimes to get through the issues and that'd be a very long movie.

But I, you know, one of the movies it's been funny for us to watch

as a family and talk about parenting was home alone and in the the leaving of

the family they forgot this child what would that feel like and we were talking about the different characters and what would it what it would feel like to be in those different positions within the family and it's fun to just talk through the different roles

people play in these family movies and consider what would it be like to be that

character and that's that's the way we've played through some of those.

Okay, well that's probably a pretty good positive way

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