The Boss Baby: Family Business — Family Discussion Guide
A guided conversation resource to help families explore the themes of The Boss Baby: Family Business through a biblical lens.
Key Takeaways
Families need reconciliation, patience, and teamwork.
Growing up changes relationships and calls for intentional care.
The film can make achievement and scheduling feel like the measure of a child’s value, which can crowd out a Christ-centered view of worth.
Its frantic humor and exaggerated self-focus can blur the quiet wisdom, humility, and rest that Scripture commends.
Discussion Questions
Why do you think Tim and Ted drifted apart, and what helped bring them back together?
What does the movie seem to say about being successful at school or work, and what does God say gives a person value?
How does the film show the changes that come with growing up, and what helps a family stay close through those changes?
Guidance Notes
The film is light in tone but includes mild peril, some crude jokes, and a few spooky fantasy moments. Its strongest feature is the emphasis on family unity, though parents may want to talk through the movie’s busyness, silliness, and worldview around success and growing up.
The movie celebrates family unity, forgiveness, and staying connected across changing seasons of life. It also treats childhood, school success, and adult busyness with a lot of comic pressure, so parents may want to discuss how Christian identity is rooted in God's love rather than performance or status.
Family reconciliation
Mild peril
Scripture References
Family Discussion Guide — The Boss Baby: Family Business (2021)
Use this guide after watching The Boss Baby: Family Business together to explore its themes through a biblical lens.
Key Takeaways
- Families need reconciliation, patience, and teamwork.
- Growing up changes relationships and calls for intentional care.
- The film can make achievement and scheduling feel like the measure of a child’s value, which can crowd out a Christ-centered view of worth.
- Its frantic humor and exaggerated self-focus can blur the quiet wisdom, humility, and rest that Scripture commends.
Discussion Questions
- Why do you think Tim and Ted drifted apart, and what helped bring them back together?
- What does the movie seem to say about being successful at school or work, and what does God say gives a person value?
- How does the film show the changes that come with growing up, and what helps a family stay close through those changes?
Guidance Notes
- The film is light in tone but includes mild peril, some crude jokes, and a few spooky fantasy moments. Its strongest feature is the emphasis on family unity, though parents may want to talk through the movie’s busyness, silliness, and worldview around success and growing up.
- The movie celebrates family unity, forgiveness, and staying connected across changing seasons of life. It also treats childhood, school success, and adult busyness with a lot of comic pressure, so parents may want to discuss how Christian identity is rooted in God’s love rather than performance or status.
- Family reconciliation
- Mild peril
Scripture to Explore Together
- Colossians 3:13
- Ephesians 4:2-3
- Matthew 5:9
- Psalm 139:13-14
- Ephesians 2:8-10
- Matthew 6:33
- Proverbs 22:6
- 1 Corinthians 13:4-7