Making it easier for children - Help!!

[toffeepop31]

Hi all

As per my previous thread - we are moving in a couple of weeks to a new post - Have encountered for the first time some issues with our seven year old daughter.

She is getting very upset about the move - about having to leave her friends behind and having to start a new school - which having moved her very regularly in the past (she has moved schools three times previously)

We have never had to deal with before. We are doing all the usual things like talking to her, answering her questions and showing her the area we are going to be living etc - but was wondering if anyone had any different suggestions to ease the process as I hate seeing her so upset!

All gratefully recieved

Thanks
xx

We've just moved - again! - and my daughter, who's 8, struggled for the first time too. Do you know anyone in the area you're posted to or have you been anywhere near there before? We bought DD some writing paper and stuff before we left so she could give some to her friends and they could write to each other, and let her choose some new stuff for her bedroom so she had a nice place to go if she was feeling sad.

Sorry to hear she is upset, that must be worrying for you.

Would it be possible to contact the new school and see if they are able to arrange for another child or two in her class to be an 'email pal' to her until she starts?

we had this when we moved here, DS 7 at the time was very upset so we set him up an email account of his own and gave it to a select few of his friends so they could email each other. I also became Facebook friends with a lot of his friends mums and dads so that we could share pictures with each other.

Sure that she will get over it once she is there. Think DS issues were because we were in a school with a low percentage of forces children so not many other DCs had moved from the school and so the DCs he left behind were very upset by him moving (adding to his upset).