Life At 9 - Season 1

The Life Series returns with two compelling new episodes. Eight children negotiate life in the rapidly changing world of late childhood. They've been filmed since the first year of life, as part of a unique scientific and social experiment, the public face of a pioneering longitudinal study of 10,000 Australian children. We follow our children from wakeup to bedtime to uncover what life is really like at nine. Their development is at a crucial precipice. The latest scientific research reveals their levels of both Independence and Creativity could set them up for success or failure in later life. Through the prism of our Life Lab the children undergo developmental and behavioural experiments. And their parents are put under the microscope too. As the lives of our children unfold, we ask what it is that makes a nine year old today an independent and creative adult tomorrow.