Babies movie review
This post is a guest post about Babies movie written by Adelaide Zindler with Home Office Mommy
I got a request from the Associated Press for the Junior Apprentice and I to give our review of the new movie “Babies”. So we went to check it out. I really had to revisit my own attachment to civilization, and I’m so grateful to AP for inviting us to take their challenge! Here are some of the questions I got from my 5-year old, as well as a few observations of my own.
Junior Apprentice’s Observations
Junior Apprentice: I wish I was the boy with my hair sticking out!
Mommy: Why?
Junior Apprentice: I could play more. She (the mom) wouldn’t be like you and I could just walk around, and where she couldn’t see me. I could still be with my daddy or my brother.
Why did he leave the baby right there with the cows? Don’t let the dog lick the baby’s face because the dogs licks their butt and other dogs butts but cats do not. Why do babies crawl? That’s disgusting! (baby discovering their body parts). She’s like Pharaoh. She’s making them work! (baby peeling banana and giving each piece to parent to discard for her) Why do they let their baby go naked? Why are they all poor? Somebody can’t handle this movie. (a young employee who came in the middle of the film walks out of the theater) They are forming a circle around him. (calves surround baby). He needs milk. (mom leans down to sooth baby with milk then sings him into walking beside her. No yelling or threats. Wow)
Home Office’s Observations
It seemed the more civilized the culture the less moms and infants touched each other, and the more they leaned toward formulas, diapers, and equipment. Indigenous mom was seen rocking her baby to sleep by carrying them while she did chores. Tribal moms appear to understand that babies can be given clear direction and have the ability to obey. Civilized parents often believe their young are still developing brains with comments like, “There’s finally starting to become a little person.” Tribal moms recognized the healing power of breast milk on wounds, and for maintaining healthy skin. In the film the modern moms puts her emphasis on either delegating themselves from child rearing or on controlling it. I observed far more of a need to resolve maternal and child conflict. From a distance what seemed like a modern mom nurturing her baby, at a closer glance turned out be more resembled a classroom setting for babies, only without the desks and chalk board. Even the more affluent Asian mother began her baby on the development of fine motor skills using miniature circles that the baby was being asked to stick to paper.
Yet research confirms that there is an equal ratio of retarded vs. mentally handicapped in every tribe on Earth. Although more highly educated, the civilized moms in the video spent massive amounts of time engaging in school readiness behavior beginning in infancy, where the African tribal moms were focusing on nurturing their babies and building relationships with each other. This is a family excursion that I highly recommend!
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This post is a guest post about Babies movie written by Adelaide Zindle. For more information, please visit her web site at http://www.HomeOfficeMommyMagazine.com
