Child Development Research Unit

Attention parents of 11,12,15 and 16 year old's! Help us learn about how pre-teen and teens negotiate about family rules with their parents. This study is virtual using Microsoft Teams! If interested, please contact us!

Attention parents!!

The Child Development Research Unit is currently looking for parents of infants to participate in a fun and exciting research project! This project involves parents of infants who have not yet started crawling, but are able to sit up on their own.

We are trying to do something that has not been done before but is very important, and that is to study how parenting practices change over about a 6 month period as children go from hardly being able to move around to being able to walk and run. However, we would not be able to do this without the help from parents within our community. If this sounds like something you might be interested in, please follow the link to our website, send us a message on Facebook, or give us a call at (519)- 767 – 5033 for a direct and prompt response from one of our Research Assistants!

Your participation would make a huge difference and would really help us gain a better understanding of parenting practices that promote children’s health and well-being.

http://cdru.psychology.uoguelph.ca/

Child Development Research Unit

Who are we?

The Child Development Research Unit (CDRU) is a research laboratory at the University of Guelph that studies critical developmental issues related to child health. We focus on promoting safety and injury prevention in children under 13 years of age. As the director of the CDRU, Dr. Morrongiello has become a top contributor to the field of Developmental Psychology by designing innovative research and intervention projects that have been shown to improve safety knowledge and reduce unintentional injuries for children. The CDRU comprises students of all levels: PhD; masters; undergraduate thesis students, interns, and volunteers; as well as some full-time staff members.

There are many ways that the research projects of the CDRU can address key factors about current safety issues. Studies may involve phone surveys, in-person visits to our lab on campus, or lab members visiting the homes of our research participants. Some studies focus on children, others on parents, and some involve the entire family.