I believe that all of the cultures presented in the documentary "Babies" show great examples of the different types of parenting different cultures give their young. I feel that there was none the less a best type of parenting of the types that were shown in the film but that doesn't mean that any of them are bad in anyway. At the least they could possibly be described as not as fortunate as other cultures. What I'm talking about is the comparison between the Japanese care giving which I believe was the best, and I'm comparing it to the Namibia care giving. In the documentary I saw the Japanese care giving as the best because It was the most modern, I saw both parents handling the child, and the parents used the Ferber method of letting the baby cry to let them soothe themselves. Now for the Namibia type of care giving I thought it was too much of an type "Old World" of care giving and very unsafe. When the mother wipes her babies bottom with her knee to basically clean him to me I just feel that now a days we have so many new techniques and resources available to us that nobody should not be using. It really hit me when the child was just playing with what seemed to be his brothers and they were trying to eat rocks and just play in the dirt, it just seems primitive to me. And as well for the Mongolian and America(San Francisco) types of care giving I thought really didn't come to par with the Japanese type of care giving either because the American on was modern as well but there didn't seem to be much discipline which I feel is needed when teaching a child how to grow up. And the Mongolian care giving I feel could of also had more care in the care giving I barely saw even the mother with the child at times it was usually just him and his brother just messing with him and making him cry al of the time.
Response to question #3:
What was universal between all of the parents care giving to their children was the love and the teaching that they brought into their children. For example trying to teach them to speak to them, trying to teach them to walk, feeding them, bathing them, and having fun with them by letting them explore. I feel that all of these things are hard wired into every human being from birth. I feel this because every human before us just as you can see as a modern example that still hasn't changed much from it's past the Namibian type of care giving I believe is inside of all of us. Where and what we grow up with determines how we also use the things around us to take care of our children. If you grow up in a modern environment you would alter your form of care giving such as the Japanese and American forms of care giving. But overall what is with us forever as humans is our primitive instincts to take care of our young and nurture them to grow into adulthood and be with them every step of the way. I believe that is our primitive calling as humans to continue to breed and care for our young, die and then the cycle starts all over again with your children and their children.
Knowing this is very significant because it is our primitive calling in life and you can't not comprehend that because if you are part of a family it's obvious enough to see that it's already in you and your family's mind that you and they were cared for that's how your hear now. In the documentary through out all of the four families you see this primitive care giving some less than other's. The Namibian care giving is the most still being connected to the primitive type then comes the Mongolian, then the Japanese and then the American. Almost in every scene of the film you can see this primitive care giving being demonstrated by all of the families as they are teaching the children, going through their daily lives with them, playing with them, and even just watching them the primitive type of care giving is still there in slightly stronger and weaker tones but its still there naturally in all of the parents.
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