The Beginning of Life: The Series - Season 1

Season 1
Using breakthroughs in technology and neuroscience, this series examines how environment affects infants -- and how infants can affect our future. This series about infant development covers the stages of learning, the importance of adult-child interaction and the challenges of becoming a parent.

Episodes

Fantastic Baby
An infant is a little scientist built to learn, with no preconceived notions of the world. The human interactions he or she takes in are essential.

Becoming a Parent
This episode offers frank but humorous firsthand accounts of the sometimes overwhelming but usually beautiful reality of becoming a parent.

Free to Learn
This 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
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
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
A baby's development of self is an astounding process, one that involves profound bonding with individuals as well as nature and physics.
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