Click to view the programme details.What goes on inside the brains of babies? How much are we shaped by the first few years of our lives? Can those early experiences and interactions with parents, carers and surroundings leave an indelible mark on our personalities? Scientists now have new insights into how children think. Some claim we’re not acting on our discoveries and are wasting the potential of a quarter of a billion lives. In a new three part series which travels to Peru, Africa and Thailand, Early Life explores the latest science and asks whether we’re ignoring a unique chance to make a better world.
Catch them young!: This film provides the introduction to the series - and looks at one Peruvian Mayor’s dream of catching kids early, and making a better world. Is his dream backed by science? It sets the stage for the arguments that will be explored through the other two films in the series - using archive, experts, and episodes from elsewhere in the world.
Cortisol kids: This film shows what life is really like for children in today’s cities. Filmed partly from the kids’ point of view, our film will follow one small family/group of children as they weave a daily path among the muddy, noisy, neon-lit urban maze of Africa’s biggest slum – Kibera, in Nairobi, Kenya. In both Slumdog and City of God, violent, fractious cities produce adults who are evidently good, as well as others who are obviously antisocial and violent. Is this a fact of human nature, or are the cities manufacturing anti-social kids because of elevated cortisol levels? And can better parenting, pre-schools and schools ever undo the damage?
My first day at school: The final film in the series will follow a group of children in Thailand as they prepare for the first day at a local school. What’s the best way forward? So far in our series we’ve found that traditional nurturing may not work for a globalized world. More effective parenting, and perhaps some kind of pre-school education, is vital. This film asks - what’s the way forward now?
From 1st - 15th August
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