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.
