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Tips For Children

  • Do not put children, even teenagers, in charge of preparing, moving, or keeping track of pets.
  • Remember that even though you have lived in a home for a few years, for a young child it is nearly a lifetime!
  • Avoid moving during school.  Ideally, move 1-3 months before a new school year begins.
  • Involve your children to communicate your expectations, goals, wants and needs.
  • Show them the home you’ve purchased.  If this cannot be done, ask for a video or photographs.
  • Keep talking to them about what’s going on.  Young children and busy teenagers are not always paying attention when you tell them important information.
  • Assure them that you won’t forget their friends.  Have a good-bye party where their friends autograph a t-shirt and write their addresses on index cards.  Have your children hand out goodbye notes with their new address enclosed.
  • Make a scrapbook of photographs of the old home, neighborhood, school, church, friends, family and going away parties.
  • Give each of your children a notebook and an inexpensive camera so they can document the move – deputize them as “Family Reporters.”
  • Do not throw, sell or give away their things.  Let them decide what they want to get rid of.
  • Let them select and price the items they want to sell at a yard sale.  Give them their own table for their goods and let them help at the cash table.
  • When packing, give them their own boxes that they can decorate.
  • Invite their new friends into your home.
  • Let them choose a new family restaurant.
  • Reward them for coping with the move.