How to Prepare Kids for Moving Overseas
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English - March 29, 2021 00:00 - 30 minutes - 21.1 MBPlaces & Travel Society & Culture Kids & Family Parenting expat expat life relocation global mobility parenting Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
For very young children, moving house can be very hard indeed. They have become accustomed to their home, their room, their friends and their routines and to leave all this can throw them into confusion.
Try to see life from a child’s-eye view. Without the benefit of years of life experience, with some extra imagination and knowing YOUR child’s foibles.
The world of a child is unexpectedly complex and the things they worry about are not always the things we might expect. Added to this, their understanding of time, distance and space is very limited, so the concept of moving to a new home, in another part of the world, for a defined period, can be totally alien. By being aware of this, you will be able to help them understand it all a little better.
It’s all basically down to recognising their child's eye view of life, communication, routines, and handing the some control in this big life-changing thing that's happening to them.