Director Estela Renner’s documentary The Beginning of Life focuses on the title and “explored the impact of a child’s early environment on their cognitive, social, and emotional development (UnicefUSA.org, 2016). This documentary takes on the ideas of scientists, advocates, and parents around the world and uses them to explore the ways in which tending to an infant’s needs can ultimately shape the human society. Many researchers, scientist, philosophers, psychiatrist and even parents brought their ideas together to uncover whether this analogy is correct or not. Throughout the documentary many insights were explored. Some of which were, what it is like to have/raise an infant, and how an infant’s brain is developed through social interaction
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Although this idea may seem hard to grasp as humans this such choice is in one’s hands and one may be given the opportunity to accept this challenge or not. According to Stanislav Grof M, D, “you see the first major challenge in this situation” …. “Straggle through the birth canal, this is like the first challenge in life and you hung in there and you made it through” … “This was a hero’s journey for me, and I made it” (Renner’s, 2016). Alan Fogal supports this idea as he focusses on the transition into parenthood. “Parents, no less than their infants, develop and change with experience” (Fogal, 2015, p.353). This is where the challenging part comes into effect, parenting isn’t an easy task to take on and doesn’t always go as planned. As a parent one may be faced with adversity, but as an infant grows one will grow also and will learn to overcome those such adversities. “After a child is born, parents must learn to cope with a variety of new conditions, including a total alteration of lifestyle, lack of sleep, and the adjustment of the marital relationship to include new family members (Fogel, 2015, p. 353). Director Estela Renner goes deeper into this idea of what it is like to raise an infant. One parent in the film stated that “raising a child is from a level of experience called love from which a mother has been blessed to experience”. She went on to say that no one that can ultimately prepare a mother or father for the raising of a child, it’s just something you learn to do along the
Although this idea may seem hard to grasp as humans this such choice is in one’s hands and one may be given the opportunity to accept this challenge or not. According to Stanislav Grof M, D, “you see the first major challenge in this situation” …. “Straggle through the birth canal, this is like the first challenge in life and you hung in there and you made it through” … “This was a hero’s journey for me, and I made it” (Renner’s, 2016). Alan Fogal supports this idea as he focusses on the transition into parenthood. “Parents, no less than their infants, develop and change with experience” (Fogal, 2015, p.353). This is where the challenging part comes into effect, parenting isn’t an easy task to take on and doesn’t always go as planned. As a parent one may be faced with adversity, but as an infant grows one will grow also and will learn to overcome those such adversities. “After a child is born, parents must learn to cope with a variety of new conditions, including a total alteration of lifestyle, lack of sleep, and the adjustment of the marital relationship to include new family members (Fogel, 2015, p. 353). Director Estela Renner goes deeper into this idea of what it is like to raise an infant. One parent in the film stated that “raising a child is from a level of experience called love from which a mother has been blessed to experience”. She went on to say that no one that can ultimately prepare a mother or father for the raising of a child, it’s just something you learn to do along the