What parenting plan is appropriate for very young children?
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<span>An experienced family-law attorney, John Spiegel has devoted his practice exclusively to family mediation since 1996. John is a graduate of Yale Law School and has been active as a mediation trainer and presenter in Maryland and nationally. He served in 2003 and 2004 as President of the Maryland Council for Dispute Resolution (MCDR), a statewide ADR practitioners’ organization, and in 2005 – 2008 as President of the Montgomery County Divorce Roundtable, an interdisciplinary professional organization. John has published articles on mediation and law reform issues and has lobbied on behalf of these issues before the Maryland General Assembly. In 2001, he received recognition as a Certified Mediator from MCDR. The father of four children, John views mediation as a continuation of his legal work on behalf of children and families.</span>
What parenting plan is appropriate for very young children?
Family-law attorney John Spiegel discusses the importance of adjusting your parenting plan depending on the age of your children.
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Host: What parenting plan is appropriate for very young children?
John Spiegel: Parents often worry especially about what kind of parenting arrangements are appropriate for very young children. Infants, toddlers, preschoolers and there is good reason for the extra concern and it has to do with what psychotherapist call, the child sense of time.
Young children, it turns out experience time differently than older children and adults. In that time seems to go more slowly for them. So for example, to me a week is a short period of time. I am often thinking months ahead, but to a very young child they may not even be able to imagine from one week, seven days later. So, for young children having more frequent contact with both parents can make a huge difference. It enables them to keep both parents in mind which otherwise they might have difficultly doing.
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