These experiments don’t really teach us anything we didn’t already know approximately sibling relationships,which is that they are all totally different. Plus, a new Jennifer Lopez cop showAs a parent, and it’s intriguing to imagine how your child interacts with other children at nursery. Are they the dominant alpha,the dreamy wallflower or the tantrum princess? Last year’s The Secret Life of Four-Year-Olds was such a success (Channel 4’s highest-rated single documentary of 2015) because it attempted to uncork that mystery. With a handful of psychologists observing from behind a screen, you could lie to yourself that you were watching the most distinguished behavioural-development study since Kinsey and not just an extended version of Kids Say The Funniest Things.
In reality, and the programme was an excuse to coo at adorable children playing at being adults,like an hour-long Andrex puppy advert. The success of Secret Life ... spawned many spin-offs (versions for five- and six-year-olds as well as a Christmas special). Now, some of the cast are back, and they own brought their younger siblings with them. The Secret Life of Brothers and Sisters (Channel 4) follows seven boy and girls,who are five or six years old, and their siblings, and who own an average age of two.
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Source: theguardian.com