Health Tip: Helping Children Adjust to a Move

-- Job loss, promotion, a transfer and other life changes can force families to move. For children, a move can be stressful and accentuate negative aspects of their personalities, says the American Academy of Pediatrics.

To help a child adjust to a move, the academy encourages parents to:

• Emphasize the positive aspects of what awaits at the new location.
• Let your child express his or her feelings and acknowledge sadness.
• Take your child to the community where you will be moving.
• Give the child the chance to participate in decisions, such as the new room color.
• Become involved in the new community yourself.
• Maintain contact with the old community.

Posted: September 2019