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 Make the Move Easy on Your Kids
Well, you can hardly believe it: After weeks and weeks of sorting, planning, packing and more sorting, planning and packing you finally made it. The movers are gone, boxes are everywhere and you and the family are ready (but not necessarily eager) to begin a new life, with new friends to meet, new places to see - and new problems to face from the kids. Even Fido seems to be confused and forlorn.
With everything else going on at the time, many times we forget that the children tend to see things differently than we do. The excitement that we feel about making more money, getting a promotion or moving to a larger house is lost on the child who sees all this as a loss of schoolmates, a loss of neighborhood playmates, an end to activities enjoyed in the other house. While you may be feeling exuberant about it all, your child may be feeling a tremendous loss of security.
Here are a few tips on how you can turn a potentially unhappy child (and possibly frightened as well) into an excited, happy participant that will see the move as a wonderful adventure:
1. Let your children know, step by step, what is happening. And what is likely to happen next. This should begin as soon as you decide to make the change, and continue right on through for weeks, maybe even months in the new place.
2. Explain to them, happy reasons for making the change but in ways they can best understand. For instance, "making more money" may not mean anything to them as "Wow! We are going to have our very own swimming pool!"
3. Enlist their help - but on a happy note. It's easy to say " You have to help pack the stuff up in your room or I'm going to throw it out." Why not instead, ask them to create a pile of toys they don't want to keep so they can make room for new ones later on at the "new place."
4. Make moving preparations fun for the kids. Put them in charge of finding boxes, collecting newspapers for wrapping and packing.
5. If possible, let the kids see the new home when it's empty. Ask the kids to help advise where certain pieces of furniture might go. Show them their rooms, and explain how they might place the furniture.
6. Before you leave the old place, invite the children to get home and email addresses and phone numbers of their current friends. Let them have a going away party.
7. Weeks before you decide which place you will be moving into, investigate the new area for parks, recreation centers, playgrounds and local attractions. Check the schools for any clubs that might interest your children. Check out your new neighborhood for children around the same age as yours. Share with them all the fun things to see and do, make this an adventure that they will look forward to.
8. Depending on how far away you moved, allow the kids to have friends from the old neighborhood over to play, or to stay overnight. If this isn't possible, encourage them to keep in touch via videos, letters or Internet. Or let them occasionally return to the old place to see old friends there. By making your children partners in the relocation process, they will be assured that the new move is designed to make everybody happy and secure.
Working With An Agent >Consult the Real Experts When you buy your first home, you want the best advice you can get. You want to show the house to friends and relatives before you commit. They will probably tell you about all of the things that went wrong during their own transactions so you can avoid the same mistakes. These experts all have good intentions, but so much advice can put you into a state of high anxiety.
Real estate transactions are very complex, and difficulties can arise. If you are buying your home with the help of a professional real estate agent, your agent will know how to make sure that any minor upsets do not turn into major problems. A real estate agent's expertise is based on formal training and experience in many real estate transactions. Their reputation is on the line with each sale, so they are highly motivated to make your purchase or sale go as smoothly as possible. When you are dealing with a professional real estate agent, you can worry about what might go wrong if you wish, but you don't have to!
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William Penn arrived in October, 1682, to take over his enormous grant that later became Pennsylvania and Delaware.
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