Preparing Your Children For the Move

Preparing Your Children For the Move To a child, moving can be an adventure — exciting, perhaps a little disorienting, but ultimately fun. Younger children are easier to move simply because they have not had enough time to form long lasting connections... More

Preparing Your Children For the Move To a child, moving can be an adventure — exciting, perhaps a little disorienting, but ultimately fun. Younger children are easier to move simply because they have not had enough time to form long lasting connections beyond their immediate family. However, for those kids who are a little older, the prospect of moving can be devastating. All of their friendships and the places they are comfortable with — their school, their neighborhood, their favorite walking and biking routes — are about to disappear. Preparing your children for a move is about providing a solid mental foundation. Before you begin packing, talk about what moving means, and how everything that they think they’ve lost will be in their new home, just in a slightly different form. They will make new friends, and they will find new places to play. If your child has a close friend, invite the close friend over to observe the moving process. Assure both kids that they will be able Less