All Episodes of The Beginning of Life: The Series
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Using breakthroughs in technology and neuroscience, this series examines how environment affects infants - and how infants can affect our future.
Season 1
N/A/100 votesFantastic Baby
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 11/11/2016
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.
Director: Estela Renner
Writer: Estela Renner
N/A/100 votesBecoming a Parent
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 11/11/2016
The episode offers frank but humorous firsthand accounts of the sometimes overwhelming but usually beautiful reality of becoming a parent.
Director: Estela Renner
Writer: Estela Renner
N/A/100 votesFree to Learn
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/11/2016
The episode takes a detailed look at the entire life cycle of learning creativity and language skills, from pre-birth to well into adulthood.
Director: Estela Renner
Writer: Estela Renner
N/A/100 votesDenied Childhood
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/11/2016
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.
Director: Estela Renner
Writer: Estela Renner
N/A/100 votesIt Takes a Village to Raise a Child
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/11/2016
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.
Director: Estela Renner
Writer: Estela Renner
N/A/100 votesEmergence of the Self
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/11/2016
A baby's development of the self is an astounding process, one that involves profound bonding with individuals as well as nature and physics.
Director: Estela Renner
Writer: Estela Renner