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ABSTRACT This piece builds upon literature using media to teach not only college students in economics, social justice, and sociology, but also those college students in family and interpersonal communication as well. I provide a resource aimed to engage and expand students’ understanding thoughtfully of two well-known family communication and interpersonal communication concepts: attachment styles and family communication patterns. The activity uses music to provide tangible examples for students to understand theoretical family and interpersonal communication concepts, as previous research stresses the importance of multimedia tools of inquiry for teaching classroom concepts. A detailed process, guidelines for debriefing, and alternatives are considered for various classroom climates or contexts. Courses: Family Communication, Interpersonal Communication. Objectives: (1) Identify conformity and conversation-oriented families. (2) Identify secure, preoccupied, dismissive, and anxious-ambivalent family attachment styles. (3) Demonstrate that attachment styles and family communication patterns are rarely explicitly stated.