THE ‘CHANGE’ LESSONS LEARNED FROM:THE CROODS

Produced by DreamWorks Animation

Distributed by 20th Century Fox

2013

This is a story about Eve and her family, The Croods, lIving in the days of caveman.  The 6 family members spend their days and nights in the cave, only going out for food.  It comes to these after their all their neighbors died in dangerous incidents.  The father as the leader of the family, take charge and responsibility, making them follow his rules to ensure their survival.

THE SURVIVOR TRAITS OF THE CROODS:

Recognize father as leader

Establish rules and regulation

Conservative

Rules and orders are to be followed

Leader taught everything

Complacent with life as it is

Live in their own society/world

Stick to routine

Everything changed when Eve, who was always fascinated by the light, met a boy named Guy.  Guy brought news that the world they’re living in is coming to destruction, thus they have to find a new world.  This fact is hard for the father to digest until the mountains they live in starts to cave-in.

Embarking on their journey to the new world, the Croods learned a lot in facing changes and adapting to Guy.  The few roads of changes that they experienced were:

1	The decision the Crood have to make In this situation the Croods have no choice but to move out of their world if they want to survive.  It’s difficult for them, in this case the father as the leader, to make the decision since they like the routine that they have lived all their lives.  But as the situation gets dangerous, they have no choice but to make the decision to move on.
2	Treading the journey with cautious Since the Croods have ever only live in their cave, everything is new to them, even fire is a fascination.  They saw many new things, new creatures, the greens, unknown to them.  They have to face new challenges to reach their destination safely.
3	Facing changes
	i.             The denial stage             In The Croods, the leader is the one that is in the denial stage while everybody else wants to move on.  During this stage the father still wants to keep some of the traditional way, rules and routines like sleeping in caves, telling the same old stories and using the same method of getting food.
	ii.            The unfreezing stage             This is where they learn to trust Guy.  Letting him free from their captive after they bare-footedly stumbled upon sharp thorny plants, while Guy has foot wear.  So the trust process begins with guy negotiating his idea and knowledge with his freedom.  Here they learned new things and their routine starts to change. THIS IS WHERE THE CROODS LEARNED Trust New idea New ways of travelling Letting each the freedom to participate in making decisions Giving people some space to try  new ideas and ways Make new friends along the way The dad, as a leader, also have lessons learned: Admiring that his idea may not be the best Imitating to get attention thus also creative with innovation while trying to do so Know when to apply the rules Learn new things from the young Learn to appreciate Be understanding and loving always be there for your loves ones
	iii.           The freezing stage             After a while, father Croods accept that they must change to survive.  The father realizes that there are great lessons learned:                    - able to use abilities more wisely                    - more visible in displaying father’s love                     accepting that everybody love him                            and wants him to change with them
4	Understanding change Change is difficult thing to the father Croods.  Finally he’s able to understand that he has to go through change to survive.  When he has accepted change, their journey towards the destination is much easier when they believe in the success of the mission and work together towards it. Even tiger became lovable when it knows that they is no way for them to survive if it keep chasing father Croods.
	The family too finally understand that everything the father as a leader did was, out of the love for the family.  With change they are able to achieve the dreams even when at times things seems to look impossible.

AZIDA

7 MAC 2014