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Looking
forward to your new home
- If your children
don't accompany you to a preliminary visit, take pictures
of your new home and community.
- Research your
new community so you can talk about the neighborhood, the
house, the schools, local areas of interest and the benefits
your family will enjoy in your new home.
- Involve your children
in plans to decorate their new bedrooms or play areas, including
color choices, decoration and arrangement of furniture.
- Make new friends
and become involved and active in your new community immediately.
Your children will follow your example during this transition
period.
- Encourage your
children to keep in touch with old friends while they also
enjoy making new friends.
Leaving
Your Old Home
- Let your kids tell
the neighborhood that you're moving.
- Let them help
plan for the care of plants and/or pets during the move.
- Help them collect
addresses of their friends and neighbors.
- Involve then in
organizing a tag sale or charity donation of toys, clothing,
books etc.
- Have a "good-bye
old friends" party.
Coping
With Moving Day
- While packing and
unpacking are in progress, consider having a sitter or a
fiend watch your infants or younger children.
- Don't let children
run in and about the mover's van and equipment, distracting
the crew from their work and professional services.
- Let younger kids
color or put stickers on their boxes, or make box labels
so they will be immediately recognizable coming off the
moving van.
- Prepare a "ready
box" that can be first off the van; stock it with things
you will need immediately upon arrival, such as snacks,
kitchen items, bathroom toiletries, hand tools etc.
- Put a set of sheets,
towels and personal items in each child's dresser drawer
to speed bed-making and settling-in on the first night in
your new home.
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