After you’ve built or bought your new home. It’s time to clean it out, set it up and move into it. Moving into a new home is actually a pretty tough step for you, so you can only imagine how tough it could be for children, especially if your old home is all they ever knew.
A new environment may be interesting for them at first, but many children find it hard to adjust to life in and around a completely different environment. You might hear them say things like “when are we going back home?” or “how long do we have to stay here?” Explain things to them as simply as you can and be patient with them. You should also try out the following tips to help make them accept your new house as their new home.
- Have the entire family start off sleeping in the same room for the first night or two. That will get them used to sleeping in their new home.
- Ensure that your kids’ rooms are all fixed up, before you focus on completing any other room. If you can, let them choose the room they each want. That gives them a sense of validation and ownership within the new house.
- Bring things from your old home into the new one, to be a comforting reminder of their old home. Pictures, ornaments and even special toys are great items to help you do that.
- Bring linen that they are familiar with to give your kids a physical sense of comfort. For instance, bringing their favourite blanket, pillowcase or curtains will help them to feel much more comfortable in their room.
- For kids who are fussy about food, bring some of what you regularly gave them at the old house. It helps reassure them that the lifestyle that they’re used to, will continue despite the change in houses.
- We know your new home won’t be as welcoming in the first few days, as it will be in future weeks and months, but you can add certain pieces of furniture and other ‘homely’ ornaments to make the family area look more like a home.
- Have your kids unpack their own luggage and organize it the way they want it in their rooms.
- Get them into school as soon as possible. What does this have to do with a new home? It is actually a sort of distraction, because they will be making friends and that will help them to get into the groove of the new area that they’re living in, much more quickly.
- Keep your routines as similar to the ones you used to have at the old house as possible.
- Be aware and respectful of the emotions your children show concerning their new home. It’s a big step for them to wrap their little minds around, so try to understand.
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