The Beginning of Life: The Series

📊 Series Specifications

Network Netflix
Episode Runtime ~45 min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 6
Original Language PT

The Beginning of Life: The Series (2016)

Created by Estela Renner
⭐ 3.0 / 5 (9 votes) 🎬 1 Seasons 📼 6 Episodes 🏷️ Documentary, Family 📡 Ended
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Synopsis

Using breakthroughs in technology and neuroscience, this series examines how environment affects infants - and how infants can affect our future.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 Fantastic Baby

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.

E2 Becoming a Parent

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

E3 Free to Learn

The episode takes a detailed look at the entire life cycle of learning creativity and language skills, from pre-birth to well into adulthood.

E4 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.

E5 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.

E6 Emergence of the Self

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