DVDs


Being a Friend: What Does It Mean? Sunburst Communications (SUN), 1995.
A twenty minute program that also includes a teacher's guide. Discusses friendships, conflicts, and resolution.

A Parent's Guide to Growing Pains-Friendship Fogware, 2005
"The Parent's Guide To Growing Pains series aims to help parents struggling with common, but sensitive and emotional, family concerns. This edition, Friendship, helps parents speak with their children about making and keeping friends and the responsibilities people in all kinds of relationships have for each other."

Peer pressure produced and directed by InVision Communications, Inc.
"In candid conversations, teens discuss situations in which they found themselves giving in to peer pressure, often when they had already been drinking alcohol and their ability to think clearly was weakened. Peer educators present ways for teens to recognize peer pressure in their lives, understand how destructive it can be, and learn how to think for themselves and resist the negative influence of others."

What Alice Found
"Alice is nineteen-years-old, fed up with her small town life, her dead-end job and an embarrassing mother. Alice takes off and heads down to Florida. Not long after her escape her car breaks down. Two good Samaritans seem to appear out of nowhere and offer to drive Alice the rest of the way. Bill and Sandra are middle-aged retirees traveling the country in their RV. Sandra takes Alice in, as if she were her own daughter. But as the miles pass, Alice soon begins to notice some strange things. She soon figures out that things aren't always what they seem to be."

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
A movie, based on Brashares book, highlighting the first summer four friends will be apart. They cope by sending letters and sharing a pair of second hand jeans. Deals with remarriage, a friend's death and first sexual encounters.

Tex
"Tex is the realistic account of an adolescent's maturation, relationships and taking of responsibility. The story shows the struggles and conflicts of two teenage brothers growing up in the Southwest without parental guidance."

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TV Shows


Chat the Nation
"Chat the Planet is a television show and internet community that connects groups of young Americans (ages 15 to 25) with their peers around the world, via satellite, for frank, no-holds-barred discussions about politics, relationships, prejudices, and life in general." See air times and further information at http://www.chatthenation.com.

Freaks and Geeks
"A television show about two very unique cliches of teenagers dealing with life in a high school during the 1980's. The show covers everything that you remember from high school that you may have chosen to forget."

Laguna Beach
"Love triangles, betrayals, and plenty of drama cast shadows on the picturesque seaside lives of eight rich, tight-knit teenagers from Laguna Beach, CA, one of the wealthiest, most beautiful communities in the world."

Divorce and Stepfamilies: Breaking Apart, Coming Together
A PBS show In the Mix. See http://www.pbs.org/inthemix to order a segment or see broadcast times. Series is about teens and produced by teens so has a genuine perspective. See their 411 and 911 list of resources.