DD (14) and DD (11) are struggling with the fact we’ve moving house soon. The younger one has only ever lived in our current house, and we moved here when the older one was a toddler, so she can’t remember anywhere else. We’re upsizing from our 2.5 bed with one loo and one shower to a 4 bed with two showers and three loos, and generally more space. It’s in the same town, only less than a 10 min drive from where we currently live, so they aren’t changing school, and we’ll still be close to their friends, albeit very slightly further from some of them.
Neither of them want to move, the 11 year old says that she can’t bear the thought of never coming back to our (current) house, that where we currently live is home. We went round to the new house last night so they could get a bit more used to it, but it just set the older one off too - she hates the decor of her new room and some of the other rooms (it’s fine, just not her taste), she doesn’t think it feels like home and both of them were in tears when we got back to our current house!
Obviously we’ve tried to reassure them, said that home is where your family is, not four walls, that it will feel more like our home once the current owners’ furniture is gone and all stuff is there, talked about some of the positives (to them) of the new house (more room for friends to come on sleepovers! People not arguing about access to the bathrooms in the mornings! They can decorate their new rooms!), but they’re both still sad.
Anyone had the same? How did you help them through it?