Video Catalog

• 2AM Feeding Mothers and fathers talk about their experiences in becoming parents, including breastfeeding, fatigue, crying, colic, post-partum, sexuality, fathering, single parenthood, role identification, and returning to the workplace.

• ADHD: What Do We Know? / ADHD: What Can We Do? These two videos will open the viewer's eyes to the disorder and encourage compassion rather than punishment.

• Baby Talk This video is a reassuring source of practical information and answers many questions that confront all new parents. Jean Smart (from "Designing Women") and her husband narrate this program.
  
  

• Developing Teenage Parenting Skills Parenting is a challenge at any age, and teens who face impending parenthood are especially in need of information and support systems. In this video, teens learn how to prepare themselves for a huge change in their lives. Becoming a parent means assuming a long-term responsibility. It's not easy to be a teen parent, but the strategies presented in this video will help teens to cope with a new role successfully.
  
  

• How to Start A Family Day Care Shot on location in licensed family day care homes, the video uses real life experiences to illustrate the many aspects of planning and operating a home day care. Topics covered include Starting Out, Rules and Regulations, Health and Safety, Space Utilization, Nutrition, Written Policies, and Business Operations.

• An Intimate Parent-Child Talk Through a series of role-play situations a father and son explore various issues facing young people, including sexuality, peer pressure, teen pregnancy, contraception, sexually transmitted diseases, alcoholism and drugs.

• Kids Talking to Kids Optimistic and encouraging in tone, the video shows what children of alcoholics can do to improve their situation and learn to cope with their parents' alcohol abuse. It features five teen "experts" who speak candidly about their personal experiences living with an alcoholic parent.

• Love is Not Enough A companion to When the Bough Breaks, this video features a leading specialist in family recovery--Dr. Patricia O'Gorman, who reprises excerpts from the parents' experiences to illustrate important steps in family recovery.She conveys appreciation for the tough job of parenting an addict and the devastation of addiction on the family.

• Lucy's Room A poignant story of a young couple struggling to regain a normal life after the sudden death of their first baby. They receive unexpected help in the process from a stranger--a young, pregnant, indigent woman whom they befriend.

• Newborn Care This video is written by a physician who experienced many frustrations and challenges following the birth of her children and found that answers to practical problems were difficult to find or contradictory--thus, this guide for solving the many challenges of the new parent.

• No Rewind Designed to heighten teenage awareness, this multiculutural documentary focuses on education and communication as essential to bringing about the behavioral changes that can prevent the spread of HIV and AIDS.

• Not Always Who They Seem This video series tackles the so-called issue of "juvenile delinquency" and traces its connection to early childhood trauma. Thought-provoking interviews with young adults whose teen years were filled with violence, addiction, homelessness, prostitution, depression, and rage challenge audiences to take another look at troubled teens -to see them not as "lost causes," but as young people who experienced traumatic events in childhood and found no appropriate outlet or expression for their pain and loss.

• One Step Ahead This video teaches parents safety awareness--the need to be constantly vigilant and never complacent about child safety, even after they have "baby-proofed" their home. Parents share their experiences and health professionals highlight dangerous situations. (Open Captioned Version Available) .
  
  
• Running Home A timely drama about four troubled teens who consider running away on Christmas Eve to escape the harsh reality of their unhappy family situations. The story is told in flashback by Speed, the only one of the four who actually decides to leave home. The video takes the viewer inside each teen's home and explores the range of abusive behavior he or she must endure. There are no happy endings; the video is a candid, honest depiction of problems facing today's young people.

• Safe and Sound: Choosing Quality Child Care This delightful, upbeat video and the accompanying 46-page written guide provides a wealth of clear, concise information to make the task of finding quality child care a little easier. Narrated by Meredith Baxter, this video contains sections on finding childcare, personal interaction, education, health and safety, communications and consistency, in-home care, and cost.

• Something to Cry About Guaranteed to get you laughing, this video is a one person teenage rant and romp through the generation gap, middle class neuroses, political correctness, responsibility, attitude, and the mayhem of hormonal imbalance.

• Story of Hope Four alcoholic adults in recovery and four children of alcoholics, aged 7-13 years, share their experiences of family life before and after getting help. It stresses the importance of counseling and education in breaking the intergeneration cycle of addiction.
  
  
• Teen Pregnancy Teenaged girls who engage in sexual activity may be seeking the approval of peers or hoping for a special, loving bond, but few become intimately involved because they want babies.

• Where Beans Grow This poignant story of a young 14-year-old girl who is struggling to come to terms with the reality of having a manic-depressive father. The small town ridicule to which the family is subjected places increasing pressure on a developing adolescent. Beautifully photographed and edited, this film is good for showing to all adolescents who must contend with dysfunctional families and to those who don't understand the trials of their lives.

• When the Bough Breaks A companion to Love is Not Enough, this powerful stage performance presents the true life experiences of eight parents of addicts and traces their journeys from the confusion and denial of early addiction, through the guilt, self-blame, and countless attempts to "change" the addict, to the recognition that one cannot cure another's addiction.