Promoting Optimal Parenting (Bright Start)

Promoting Optimal Parenting

The purpose of this study is to determine if providing parenting education materials delivered in different ways during the first 30 months of a child's life will increase child-parent attachment and promote mother-child interaction, if certain types of strategies improve cognitive, language, and emotional development in infants and toddlers, and if our way of delivering these materials is cost-effective.

Inclusion Criteria:

• English-speaking
• 18-23 year-old first-time mother of a healthy newborn

Exclusion Criteria:

• Anything other than above