Episode 1 | Britain’s Biggest Primary School

The Diversity of the contemporary family | The British Family

Jaqueline Wilson and Kirsty Young discuss how the classic nuclear family has changed in contemporary culture.

Disproving Piaget | Growing Babies

Jean Piaget believed that children were born and started from scratch with their infantile mental development, which was mostly denounced ...

Changes in the status of children in the family and society | The British Family

A look at how the ways in which children are viewed have changed over time.

Episode 2 | Too Tough to Teach

In the final episode, we meet the newest addition to the Ian Mikardo High School and the school's longest-attending student.

Developing self control | Babies: Their Wonderful World

A simple experiment while a baby is wearing a brain scanner, measures the activity in the frontal cortex which can in...

Britain's elderly | The British Family

With grandparents living longer, modern parents are in a dilemma when ageing and healthcare become an issue.

Childcare and the affect on the child | Baby Monthly

Can regularly leaving your children with someone who isn't their parent have a profound effect on them mentally in later...

Core knowledge in the womb | Growing Babies

3D scanning provides us with clear visuals of behaviour patterns to indicate evidence for the idea of "core knowledge".

Early language development | Babies: Their Wonderful World

At around their second year, babies usually have an explosion of talk but scientists know very little about this. ...

Newborn's and ''core knowledge'' | Growing Babies

Piaget's initial theory has now been replaced by the idea that babies are born with a "core knowledge" that is innate and s...

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder | Growing Children

Laverne Antrobus explains how the OCD brain works and gives some background on the condition.

Obsessive irrational thoughts | Growing Children

Laverne meets a young teenager with OCD who explains what is like to obsess over his irrational thoughts and how distressing...

Tasting and seeing in the womb | Growing Babies

3D scanning has shown that babies practice breathing, open their eyes and appear to taste the fluid around them.

Too Tough to Teach

Brand new two-part documentary series about a school for boys with severe behavioural problems. In this episode, an alienated 12-year-old is made to organ...

02: Ice Babies | A Child Against All Odds

Freezing embryos offers hope to people faced with being unable to have children of their own.

Anger and frustration in autism | Growing Children

Laverne meets a young boy whose level of autism means he can function in ''neuro-typical'' situations but this isn't witho...

Attitudes towards misbehaving children | The British Family

In the 1990s children and teenagers started to become feared, but if it was the fault of the children, the parent...

Babies and ''Natural Geometry'' | Growing Babies

Babies are also believed to be born with an innate sense of the space around them.

Babies and biased learning | Growing Babies

Babies rely on signalling from others and will often be shown where to look by adults.

Babies and counting | Baby Monthly

It is debatable whether babies around five months can "count", but it can be agreed there is an awareness of the concepts of increase or d...