Teens occasionally experiment with drugs and alcohol in Boyhood. How does the movie view these sequences? Is it right or wrong for teens to experiment?

7. Teens occasionally experiment with drugs and alcohol in Boyhood. How does the movie view these sequences? Is it right or wrong for teens to experiment? What are the consequences, if any of these actions? Make sure to incorporate key terms from the textbook.

8. Consider the socioeconomic (SES) status of the family and how it changed overtime. What influence does SES sometimes have on children’s language development? Do you think that Mason and his sister’s language development was delayed, normal, or advanced compared to what you would expect? What other influences (genetic and/or environmental) might have had an even greater influence than SES in their lives.

Describe at least three examples of stress that occurred in this family throughout the movie. What were the consequences of the stressors? Did members of the family employ adaptive (good), or maladaptive (bad) coping strategies? What are examples of hardiness, resilience, and coping that the characters demonstrated in the face of these adversities? Make sure to incorporate key terms from the textbook