It was the absence of dialogue - scripted or otherwise - that caught my attention when I first viewed the docu-film, "Babies." obvious that the minimal use of words was played into the overall power of the film. It was really incredible seeing the different lifestyles and parenting methods in the various countries, yet all of the babies were still developing and reaching their "milestones.  I thought that the movie did an excellent job organized each developmental stage for each of the babies' lives (we see each one learning to crawl, hand eye coordination, feeding, interacting with others, etc.) While each culture brought its own uniqueness to the development stage, the actual milestone remained the same. An example would be with Ponijao from Namibia. In that culture, it was not uncommon for other mothers to breastfeed other children whereas in the other cultures shown, breastfeeding was between a mother and her child. Even though Ponijao was breastfed by other women, he was still able to recognize and attach with his mother. Another thing that was interesting was Ponijao culture did not have many resources/material items (toys, diapers etc.) the children there seemed to be the happiest children featured. They did not seem to mind playing with rocks or their lack of clothes. IT seemed like their mother took the primary active role in parenting and kind of had a "this is what we have, make the most of it.  This leads to my next example with Mari and Hattie. I was surprised with the amount of similarities displayed to these two girls. Prior to seeing this movie, I did not realize the parenting styles were very similar (playdates, amount of toys, parents taking the children outside of the home, and involvement of the child's extended family.) Previously I had just thought that these parenting styles were only common in the US, mainly the amount of toys and the child interacting with others at such a young age. Both of these two g