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The Analysis On The Modern Day Remake Of Yours, Mine, And Ours
The Analysis on the Modern Day Remake of “Yours, Mine, and Ours” Relating to Psychology
Rachel Labell
Front Range Community College

Observations Relating to Psychology: The Beardsley and North Family Unite
Rachel Labell During childhood, most everyone experiences a parenting style in their different homes. Some parents punish their children for being disobedient and not following the rules they have set for their household. Other parents may allow their kids to do as they please with little consequences or rules set to abide by. After watching the movie remake of “Yours, Mine, and Ours” that came out in 2005, I was able to connect a few concepts from psychology class. This movie is about a widowed mother who is a handbag designer, as well as a widowed father who is a Coast Guard Admiral. The two parents fall in love and get married, and this is much to the chagrin of Frank
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I felt as though this movie was a worthy representation of three specific concepts I have learned so far this semester in psychology. Different situations in the movie led me to think about parenting styles, adolescence, as well as the social learning theory of gender-role development. In the beginning of the movie, the parents have not yet united their two families of 18 children. The father’s job as an admiral has forced his 8 children to relocate more than 12 times over the years. As I watch the kids in the Beardsley family move into their new home in Connecticut, I can see that the father has established order with them. They are not playing around, they are gathering their various things and filing neatly into the house. They do not object when they are told what to do. The youngest son is even in the habit of calling his dad admiral. At one point in the movie, the father informs his little boy that he is allowed to call him dad, yet he continues calling him Admiral. An issue

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