Pay Special Attention to your Children When Moving during the School Year
Posted on 02/09/2014
People all over the world are taking everyday the hard decision to move to another place. And if you ask them probably everyone will give different reason for that. One thing is common for all of them – the process will be long and will require a lot of preparation and thinking.
It is not necessary for the relocation to be hard. Sometimes the moving is easier, due to many reasons. For example if you have enough to pay to a company for everything, you will feel no difficulties during the process. If you are changing your old place with a new one that is very close will also cause less troubles. But when you have kids, the things always get complicated. It does not change much the situation whether they are babies or teenagers, because every age is specifics and has aspects that have to be managed.
This article will be focused on the topic how to prepare your kids who are going to school the best way possible for the changing situation. The reason why this is so important to pay attention to is because at certain age the kids are mostly identifying with their friends, and the place they find most friends at is the school. When you announce the news for the relocation, your kids will be the ones feeling less enthusiastic about the idea. You will probably do not understand why all this fuss is about, but for them it is a tragic moment. This is because kids will fill very vulnerable and alone at the new place for some time, and this thought can be very painful for them. To lose the friends they have for so long and to start building new relationships all over again can be very hard, especially for the kids that are not so easy adapting to new situations.
To avoid all this drama that will be accompanying the moving, because you will have pretty much else to do, you have to pay special attention to the kids and inform them about the future plans you have very carefully and with tact. When you are going to see the possible houses you are going to buy, take the kid or kids with you whenever it is possible. Thus they will slowly start to accept the idea and slowly will think of the future moving as something natural. When you are sure for the neighborhood you will be heading to, arrange at least two or three meetings with the new teacher and visits to the school with your kid. Try to understand what is the opinion of your child for the new people, he or she met, and change the school if it is necessary. Do not take very word from your kid as a whim. Sometimes children are right with their impressions.
At the moment you arrive to the new place, do not start with the unpacking right away, but put the feeling of the kids first. Go out to the playground or just walk around the neighborhood and introduce yourself to families with kids. There is great option for your child to find its future best friend exactly this way.
Try to sign up the kid for some extra-curricular activities and sports, but do not force him or her, because you will get the opposite effect.
Do not push the child for anything and allow some time when probably the marks in school will not be so good. Allow the kid to invite other kids over in the house, because this will make things significantly easier.
