How to Survive Moving
Have you moved to a new state or country? Do you like the place? If you don't, try exploring some of the positive aspects of moving such as new places, new friends, and hopefully, a whole new adventure. This article aimed at children will tell you how to survive moving away for the first time.
Steps
- When you find out you are leaving, get a notebook where all of your friends can leave contact information and well wishes for your new home.
- Call your old friends.
- E-mail, write, send packages, and ask them to send you packages to your new home.
- Try and make arrangements with your parents to see if you could go and visit your old friends or have your friends visit you.
- Make sure you try to make friends with a lot of people. If you don't like any of your new friends, find someone who you can at least turn to. Try not to stick to just one person. Try and find someone who you can trust with secrets and who is very respectful. Whenever you are down you can look to them to pour out all of your sadness.
- Sometimes it doesn't hurt to cry. Doing this in your room or with your parents can be useful. Sometimes you just need to let it all out.
- Don't think negatively about the place. Just think of it as an adventure.
- Find an activity, like a club or group to get involved in.
Tips
- Remember that sometimes you will always feel sad no matter how long you have lived in a place. Have friends from your original home send you postcards, pictures and packages. You can send them small gifts in return (for example, a favorite pack of gum).
- Make a card or friendship bracelet.
- Call them on their birthdays.
- E-mail them with E-cards.
- Write to them and tell them what you are doing.
- You are the one who is exploring a whole new world, not your friends, so tell them what it's like!
Warnings
- Don't live in the past - stay in touch with your old friends, but try to make new ones, too. If possible, introduce them to one another.
