Alternate Guard: All About the Brazelton Calendar
For conflict situations
The Brazelton calendar is especially useful for conflict situations. When the dialogue between the two parents is possible, the calendar can serve as a basis, and to each to modify it according to the rhythm of thechild, possibilities of moving the father or desires of parents, for example.
For the well being of the child
Directed by Brazelton and Greenspan, two researchers and clinicians specializing in the psychological development of small child, Brazelton's calendar focuses on the impact that alternating guarding can have onchild. The idea is that he can share time with one of his parents without the absence of the other being an injury to thechild.
Progressive
The needs of thechild are not the same at all ages. Three phases, adapting to the development of thechild, are therefore proposed:
- This is how 0 to 1 year: thechild will not spend the night with his father, but will see him between 2 and 3 consecutive hours two or three times a week.
- Between 1 and 3 years old: we introduce one night a week at dad's place. Thechild Spends more time with his father without the separation with his mother lasts more than a day and a half.
- Between 3 and 6 years old:child spend a weekend on two at his father's. For which'child can still see his father every week, a day every 15 days is provided for this purpose.
