After watching the babies movie in class on wednesday, the one thing that really stood out to me was the amount of freedom the babies in Mongolia and Namibia had compared to the babies from San Francisco and Tokyo.
When I say "freedom" I am specifically looking at how each one of these babies were pretty much on their own as far as entertaining themselves and playing with others. They could walk (or crawl) as far as they wanted outside and they didnt have special toys that were necessarily bought from a store. The baby in Mongolia was always crawling around with the farm animals and playing with buckets of water. And the baby in Namibia was playing with sticks in the dirt and splashing in the puddles and streams.
As for the babies in San Francisco and Tokyo, they were much more pampered and catered to as far as being entertained. They were given toys to play with, they had books read to them, and their parents even took them to several really weird "mom-sibling" yoga type classes where they would sing and dance together with other mothers and their babies.
These to very different ways of growing up really shocked me. It seemed to me that the two babies from Mongolia and Namibia were almost always having much more fun and laughing while they were playing. As the babies from San Francisco and Tokyo were always upset about something or bored with the stupid classes they were at (I specifically remember one baby trying to open the door and escape).
To me I would much rather be outside roaming around and playing in the mud and dirt with no worries.
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