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"When kids are born, they're already little scientists exploring the world," said the filmmaker Estela Renner via a video conference from Brazil before a...screening of her...documentary The Beginning of Life (streaming on Netflix) at the World Bank in Washington, D.C.' So wrote Emily Deruy in an article in The Atlantic.

"That's something Renner, a Brazilian mother of three, discovered as she spoke with early-childhood experts and parents in nine countries around the world about the impact a child’s environment in the first few years of life has on not only her physical development, but her cognitive, social, and emotional development, too. 'I didn’t know that kids were not blank slates,' she said. 'It changed the way I look at babies.' If more people recognized that fact, the way communities and policymakers think about and invest in the early years of life might be different."

Source: "The Complex Lives of Babies," by Emily Deruy, The Atlantic, June 20, 2016.

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