Summary
Since 2000, Weekend has followed 25 babies born at the millennium in a fascinating TV experiment to track how our children grow.
Now, as the youngsters turn six, LISA SEWARDS finds out how five of them are faring, and child expert ROBERT WINSTON tells how they have surprised even himSee the full content of this document
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Hit for Six
Are we made or born? A new take on this age-old question is made by Child Of Our Time, a four-part TV series which has been following 25 children born in or around 2000, testing them psychologically to track how they change from birth to the age of 20. The project is being supervised by scientist Lord Robert Winston, who told Weekend that the children are already teaching him valuable lessons and overturning even his own cherished ideas about human development.
'The biggest surprise is the amazing resilience of the children,' he says.'We assume children are hugely affected by the environment in which they grow, and when that is difficult, they will be adversely affected. But the series shows that sometimes they appear not to be a...See the full content of this document
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