The typical twos

United States, 1992

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Episode number 12 of Series “Time to grow”.
Three case studies of two year-olds and their parents: Tyler, from a middle class family, Dominic, an American Indian, and Becky, from a low-income single parent family show the tensions between the needs for autonomy and attachment.

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Credits

director

Harry Ratner

production company

Coastline Community College

Southern California Consortium

Duration

00:29:00:00

Production places
United States
Production dates
1992

Appears in

Time to grow

Group of items

Time to grow

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

303706

Language

English

Subject categories

Family, Gender Identity, Relationships & Sexuality → Child development

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Child development

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Developmental psychology - Case studies

Short films

Short films → Short films - United States

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Sound

Colour

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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