Adventures in Parenting

Prinicipal Investigator: John Borkowski, Ph.D.

Co-Investigators: Jaelyn Farris, M.S.Ed., & Shannon Carothers, M.A.

Increased public interest in self-help parent training books and pamphlets - plus a general abundance of child care books, magazines, and videos - are clear signs that today’s parents often need and seek out information that can help them raise a healthy, happy, and successful child. The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) recently published a 62-page illustrated booklet –Adventures in Parenting: How Responding, Preventing, Monitoring, Mentoring, and Modeling Can Help You be a Successful Parent – designed to educate parents on five basic principles of parenting and encourage them to utilize these principles in developing a cognitive model of how they want to parent their children. This booklet focuses on the RPM3 (Responding, Preventing, Monitoring, Mentoring, and Modeling) model of parenting, which is an outgrowth of decades of research on child development and parenting practices. Although the principles put forth in Adventures in Parenting are straightforward and widely applicable, the question remains as to whether an informational booklet is sufficient to bring about more positive parenting and optimal child development. This study aims to address this question.

Website: To Be Created

For more information contact Shannon Carothers or Jaelyn Farris at 574-631-0950, or send email to carothers.1@nd.edu or jfarris@nd.edu

This project is currently recruiting new participants! If you are a mother with at least one child between the ages of 2 and 3, you may be eligible to participate. Participants will gain valuable knowledge about parenting and child development, and will be compensated for their time. If you would like more information or are interested in participating, please contact Shannon Carothers or Jaelyn Farris.