Moving With Children
Helping Children With A Move
- Assure children that you won't forget their friends.
- Make a scrapbook of the old home and neighbourhood.
- Throw a ggod-bye party. At the party, have their friends sign a tee shirt.
- When packing, give them their own box. They can decorate it so they know which one it is.
- Start a scrapbook for their new home. Include a diary "of my first...'.
- Visit their new school, park, church, etc...Take a camera.
- When unpacking, allow them to unpack their treasures then have them play with the boxes while you unpack.
- Help your children invite new friends over to the house.
- Let them choose a new favourite restaurant. This will help hem feel in control of their new world.
- Encourage them to send letters about their new home to their friends.
- Remember, even if you only lived in a home a few years, to a young child it is nearly their entire lifetime!