Using breakthroughs in technology and neuroscience, this series examines how environment affects infants - and how infants can affect our future.
The Beginning of Life: The Series (Season 1)
Fantastic Baby (Episode 1)
Writer: Estela Renner
Air date: 2016-11-11
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: An infant is a little scientist built to learn, with no preconcieved notions of the world. The human interactions he or she takes in are essential.
Becoming a Parent (Episode 2)
Writer: Estela Renner
Air date: 2016-11-11
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: The episode offers frank but humorous firsthand accounts of the sometimes overwhelming but usually beautiful reality of becoming a parent.
Free to Learn (Episode 3)
Writer: Estela Renner
Air date: 2016-11-11
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: The episode takes a detailed look at the entire life cycle of learning creativity and language skills, from pre-birth to well into adulthood.
Denied Childhood (Episode 4)
Writer: Estela Renner
Air date: 2016-11-11
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: Environment is a huge factor in a child's health, so it's important to deal with issues that often plague parents, such as poverty, stress and others.
It Takes a Village to Raise a Child (Episode 5)
Writer: Estela Renner
Air date: 2016-11-11
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: The scope of responsibilities involved in raising a child is very wide. Everyone in the world has a role in the lives of the people brought into it.
Emergence of the Self (Episode 6)
Writer: Estela Renner
Air date: 2016-11-11
Runtime: 45 min
Overview: A baby's development of the self is an astounding process, one that involves profound bonding with individuals as well as nature and physics.
Seasons
Episodes 6