Movie Review: Daddy Day Care

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Daddy Day Care is a film directed by Steve Carr in 2003. The movies writer was Geoff Rodkey and the production companies that where involved in this movie included Revolution Studios, Davis Entertainment and Day Care Productions. This movie follows an African American family. The family has two parents, Charlie and Kim Hinton, with their four-year-old son, Ben Hinton. The family seems to be in the middle class with Charlie being the sole provider and Kim benign a stay at home mom. The movie starts with Kim wanting to go back to work, which leads to putting Ben in an exclusive and expensive preschool. Then an unexpected event happens, Charlie loses his job when the company downsized. They try to keep their lifestyle the same with only Kim’s …show more content…

This means that the child is between the ages of 2 to 5. In this stage parents are making rules and enforcing their children to teach them structure and order. This needs to be done in a warm environment for children to develop positively. In the beginning of the film Charlie and Kim have Ben going to a preschool that has all the structure and education a child needs but it is not done in a warm inviting way. Once Ben is taken out of this environment and is into a more warm structure environment he starts to open up more to his parents and …show more content…

The system in the model that changes the most is Microsystem. This system includes his parents, school, and peers. In the beging of the film Ben stays at home with his mom while his dad goes to work. This then shifts when Kim wants to go back to work so Ben is placed in preschool. The preschool that Ben goes to is very strict and does not offer much interaction with peers. After Charlie loses his job he becomes Ben’s main caregiver and Ben is pulled from school. This is an improvement on Ben’s development because he is able to express himself with his dad and is creating a bond that he had never had before with Charlie’s. By the end of the movie Ben is back with his peers in his fathers run day care. Now Ben has a more supportive family life and larger group of peers. All these new changes have a positive affect on Ben and can be seen in how he has become more confident and social in his

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