We Are All Babies

I finally managed to watch the lovely documentary ‘Babies’ last night. I highly recommend it if you haven’t yet seen it.

It is so much fun. Babies are fun. Babies are fun no matter WHERE in the world they come from. And that is the great lesson….a great lesson for peace, respect, and understanding.

No matter where we come from, what our religion is, or colour of our skin…we all start out as babies. We are all the same. We all learn to say ‘mama’ and how to put one leg in front of the other in exactly the same way.

We are all born needing the same things from those around us. We want love and protection.

We are all the same.

And we all love our babies in the same way.

However, I did have to giggle at the crunch family from San Fransisco. In one scene the dad is attending some sort of ‘Sing About the Earth Mother Parent and Baby’ thing and the baby is clearly not impressed and thinks they are all mental. She gets up and heads for the door…pushing and straining to open it.

She also was not impressed with the reading her mom tried to do and HIT HER MOM and then picked a new book about hitting. HEH.

Anyway……All the families were amazing…I found the sedate grace of the Namibians entrancing.

And for all the people in the world who cringe at breast feeding….get over it. The scene when the Namibian mother calmly bends down to let her toddler have a quick suckle to ease her tired fussiness during their walk was beautiful. That is what mothers do. That is what breasts do.

Babies shows that no matter how hard a life can be or how harsh the environment, letting babies be babies and have the safety and freedom to explore their worlds is vital and wonderful.

It is a great documentary to remind us to see the joy in the simple things..and the miracle of life.