Taking responsibility for someone else is not easy, especially if this person is a small, helpless being who knows nothing of life other than you and your partner, and thinks that you are entrusted with performing all his sensible and unreasonable desires at all. New mothers often suffer from constant fatigue and lack of sleep, prey to “postpartum depression,” and problems abound between the two partners. Small vicious care ring.

But motherhood and parenthood not only involve fatigue, discomfort, and anger, hence guilt, but it can also include comic “attitudes and jokes,” which can play down the whole thing and show how much it is worth.

World cinema has embodied some of these funny situations in many films, the following lines review some of these films that we recommend new parents to watch together, in order to identify what is on the other side of the River motherhood and paternity, and may also alleviate the difficulty of the experience, which seems in Often very difficult.

1 – Life on the other beach

Life in the presence of a child, totally different from life before him, especially if the experience of having a child, sudden and unplanned, as it is difficult for the partners to accept the presence of a third person, has become a top priority in their lives, and they must run life according to his requirements and psychological, emotional and physical From the long nights of restlessness to the endless stress day and the desire to succeed in this challenging experience.

In this 2010 film, two friends of a family share guardianship of a baby girl, based on the will of her parents who died in an accident and left her upbringing, transforming their lives overnight, from a life of freedom and irresponsibility, into a life that is constrained by the circumstances of the infant. They know the way to deal with them or to raise them, to follow the funny events and light situations in which new parents are located, before they can master the normal daily tasks such as feeding and changing clothes, preparing the child to sleep, and meet the wishes of the young never-ending.

2 – Cheaper by the Dozen .. Mission Impossible

The father always wants to be involved in taking care of his children and standing up to every little and big in their lives, but this desire soon disappears after taking responsibility and know the true dimensions, in this film produced in 2003, the father, a football coach of a university team, which He moved his family to a small town in order to fulfill his career aspirations, to take responsibility for a dozen full of children, his children, ranging from the beginning of college to pre-school age, during the absence of the mother on a marketing trip for her new book.

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The house turned into an arena of chaos, the father failed to manage the affairs of the house and the children, and his desperate attempt not to turn to the mother or to ask her to return to the house, until things get worse and the house begins to crumble. The film is full of funny comedy events, lots of funny situations, as well as the human dimension of the relationship between brothers, father, and mother.

3 – Parental Guidance

New parents often clash with loved ones who want to intervene in both large and small in the upbringing of their grandchildren and see that their children do not have the expertise or knowledge to raise children.

Parental Guidance, a 2012 film about grandparents having to take care of their three grandchildren living away from them, during the absence of a mother and father on a business trip, the difficulty of keeping up with grandchildren in a comic mold, and not following the way of education or rules he left Their young parents, and then discover some of the “major” problems suffered by grandchildren.

The young mother does not see it as real problems that need to be worked on or amplified, so that the grandparents begin to intervene to solve these problems in their own way, without referring to the father and mother, causing a comic clash between generations of different parents, and grandchildren.

4 – Little Miss Sunshine .. Family support means everything

Often, the lives of family members overlap with each other because they live in one place, and sometimes a large family lives together, but each individual remains isolated from one another until a situation forces them to meet and identify.

This film is about the family of the little girl «Oliv» consisting of a mother, father, brother and uncle and grandfather, who lives in dire condition. The mother who attempts to quit smoking works in two jobs to support the large family, and the father is a lecturer in the field of human development, and believes in the theory His “nine steps”, a theory of human development, says that changing an individual’s life begins with rejecting loss, abandoning bad habits, pursuing goals without hesitation, grumbling, or making excuses; His vision is the basis of success in life, and the brother who hopes to enter the academy For Joya, he decided to abstain from speech, a vow of acceptance.

On the other hand, the uncle moved to live with the family of Olive after he tried to commit suicide after he came out of a bitter love experience, and finally the grandfather, heroin addict who spends most of his time with the young in training for the Miss Children competition.

The family’s life is turned upside down after accepting a small participation in the competition «Little miss sunshine», and the family out of her father’s car in the «VW», to reach California, where the competition takes place, and during the journey of travel, paradoxes, starting from disruption The car, ending with the death of the grandfather after an overdose.

But all this is not compared to the small shock wears big glasses, when she arrived at the headquarters of the competition to discover that the chances of winning almost non-existent, the other participants, replicas of the copy of the doll Barbie; but insists on the stage and begin to perform a dance show, and what follows Of fun and comical events.

5 – Mr. Mom .. to wear mother’s shoes

When a mother complains about the large number of tasks assigned to her, and that she works full-time in the care and care of young children, and in the daily household tasks of cooking, arranging, cleanliness and repair breakdowns, the husband usually reduces all this effort, until he is forced to wear her shoes and do the work that was Performed, to discover their abundance and difficulty.

In this film, the husband is separated from his work and does not find a vacant job, forcing his wife to go out to work. Located on the housewife’s mother.

6 – Mrs. Doubtfire .. Father who became a domestic worker

We can not talk about comedy films in the context of family and family, without reference to the film «Mrs. Doubtfire, or commercially known in the Arab world, as “The Adventures of Baba Al-Shagala”, was a highly acclaimed film when it was shown in American auditoriums, and remained the most-watched on American television stations for 10 years; and starred the late star Robin Williams, which Although he dealt with the consequences of family disintegration, he shed light on the human dimension in the father’s relationship with his children, and the extent of his attachment to them and the importance of his presence in their lives, to the extent that led him to disguise the character of an old nanny, so that he can see his children on a daily basis, and deal with their problems and events of normal life, Comedy.

This film earned the Golden Globe Award for Best Comedy, and Williams received the same award for Best Actor in a Comedy, produced in 1993.

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