Child of Our Time
The study of child development reaches its seventh year - Robert Winston returns to explore how the millennium babies are discovering fitting in, competitiveness and their creative impulses.
The study of child development reaches its seventh year - Robert Winston returns to explore how the millennium babies are discovering fitting in, competitiveness and their creative impulses.
What was I about to do?
Toddlers get distracted; adults forget what they're doing. Development of executive function takes us from plans to action.
Difference and sameness
With more difference within, rather than between, racial groups, how are children growing up with ideas of race?
Pegs, liquids and shapes
Try the same tests based on planning, combining and hidden shapes faced by the children in the series - join in our survey.
On bbc.co.uk
Watch programmes from earlier series, and get more background, with bbc.co.uk/parenting.
How we learn how they learn
Learn more about the experiments used to study child and developmental psychology.
What you've taught us
Since 2004, we've asked for you to join in our surveys connected to the Child of Our Time series. Here, we share some survey findings.
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