The Beginning of Life: The Series - S1 E1

2. Becoming a Parent

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

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.