subject: Helping Your Children To Deal With A Move Successfully [print this page] A move can be extremely disturbing to children. Helping your children deal with a move will be critical.
There are times when you may find it necessary to move, perhaps to find a more suitable employment or because of a change in your economic status. Regardless of why you move, however, it is something most children will find difficult to cope with. Not only are they leaving their safe environment (home), but also they are leaving their friends and neighborhood.
While it may be hard on you to uproot yourselves, your children will be watching closely how you deal with it all. These can be extremely challenging times, and everyone may "be on edge". Recognize that your children may act out their frustration by a change in their behavior.
You are the parent here, and it is important for you to make sure that you handle this situation properly, so that your child can adjust as quickly as possible. This will not only help them, it will also help you in your own efforts at adjusting.
Probably the best time for you to begin preparing your children to move is with as much advance notice as possible. Depending upon their age, you are going to have to approach each age differently. You might find that a younger child is much easier to deal with than an older one. Most likely, an older child is going to put up with some initial resistance. Make sure you do what is necessary to prepare them and you will have less problems helping them to adjust once the move actually takes place.
Immediately after you begin moving, it is important to set up a corner or room in the new home that will be a place each child can identify as their own space.
If they have their own comfortable livable area, it will be much easier for them to acclimate fully into their new surroundings.
Moving is a challenge, but with a little bit of thought and work on your part, you can meet the situation successfully, and help your children to be able to do the same thing for themselves. It does not have to be the end of their world, though they may behave as if it is.
Helping children adjust to the world is critical.
by: Maureen Amberg
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