SINCE 2015
The wonderful world of children – We’re getting big now
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VOX has been following eleven children and their families up close since 2015. The children will be eleven and twelve years old in 2023 and will show us what it really means to grow up in a long-term project that is unique in Germany. We have been meeting up with children and parents several times a year since they were four years old, allowing them to experiment together, learn, discover the world and experience it at home in their own surroundings. The renowned developmental psychologists Prof. Dr. Sabina Pauen and Prof. Dr. Moritz Daum classify what we experience at home with the families and in the experiments. Viewers become party to valuable parenting tips and insights into how a child’s psyche develops.
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EPISODES
We’re getting big now!
A vacation without parents at last
12 children. A vacation home by the sea. And no parents anywhere. What happens when 6 girls and 6 boys go on vacation alone? They are 11 and 12 years old now. A very special age. Are you on the verge of puberty, or already in it? In any case, neither fish nor fowl: no longer a child, but already an adult. There’s a lot going on!
First aired on: Part 1 on 10/10/2022, Part 2 on 17/10/2023 at 8:15 p.m. and anytime on RTL+, 90 min
We’re getting big now!
Finally home alone
In this year’s experiment, the children’s combo moves into a house on their own for four days. They are free to decide almost everything and must also look after themselves. Unexpected hurdles arise. And: Lara is a new member of the group. Will she be accepted as a friend?
First aired on: Part 1 on 30/08/2022, Part 2 on 06/09/2022 at 8:15 p.m. and anytime on RTL+, 90 min
We’re getting big now!
Our children in the Corona year
In 2020, the coronavirus crisis really shakes everything up. Also the environment in which our children and their parents live. The boys and girls are now nine and ten years old and more curious and inquisitive and smarter than ever. For the first time they experience how an unknown danger, a virus, can paralyse the whole world. We ask: How do they and their families manage cope in this difficult time?
First aired on: 10/04/2021 at 8:15 p.m. and anytime on RTL+, 90 min
The wonderful world of children
We’re getting big now!
In order to gain an authentic insight into the lives of eight- and nine-year-olds, a primary school in Cologne is fitted out with cameras and microphones once again. In the first episode, everything centres on the topic of “family”. We want to know: what’s the secret of a happy family and how do successfully build a family in the first place?
First aired on: Part 1 on 02/03/2020, Part 2 on 09/02/2020 at 8:15 p.m. and anytime on RTL+, 90 min
The wonderful world of children
We are 6!
The kids are now 6 and 7 years old and think they’re pretty cool. They’re just starting their first year at school. This time we are at an elementary school near Cologne and spend an entire weekend observing the behavior of first graders. As in the kindergarten, the classrooms are now equipped with cameras.
First aired on: Part 1 on 23/01/2019, Part 2 on 30/01/2019 at 8:15 p.m. and anytime on RTL+, 90 min
The wonderful world of children
We are 5!
This time, the eleven children will be accompanied over a period of six months. We are shown what enormous development potential the little ones have in them, who have changed immensely within a year. And not only that: they also remind us of our own childhood and how much parental judgment can affect a child’s life.
First aired on: Part 1 on 09/01/2018, Part 2 on 16/01/2018 at 8:15 p.m. and anytime on RTL+, 90 min
The wonderful world of children
We are 4!
2017 – broadcasting start of a series that has never previously existed on German TV: Eleven children, their parents and two renowned developmental psychologists offer us an absolutely unique insight into the world of four and five year-old kids. A kindergarten is equipped with cameras for a weekend every four months, so that we can watch the children almost unnoticed as they get to know each other, explore, quarrel, make up, play and make friends.
First aired on: 17/01/2017 at 8:15 p.m. and anytime on RTL+, 90 min