{"id":1226,"date":"2014-03-21T01:06:48","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T01:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orangesand.com\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2014-03-21T01:06:48","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T01:06:48","slug":"kids-need-special-attention-when-moving-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/21\/kids-need-special-attention-when-moving-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"KIDS NEED SPECIAL ATTENTION WHEN MOVING &#8211; part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Disruptive as moving is for parents, it can be more traumatic for kids, who are not part of the decision and might not understand it.\u00a0 Kids need time and attention.\u00a0 If the family has had a major life change, such as death or divorce you may want to wait for kids to adjust .\u00a0 The moving decision may be out of your hands, but even though you are unhappy, maintain a positive attitude.\u00a0 Adults moods can greatly affect children.\u00a0 No matter what the circumstances, the most IMPORTANT WAY TO PREPARE KIDS TO MOVE IS TO TALK ABOUT IT.\u00a0 Involve the kids in the planning as much as possible, in the house-hunting process or search for a new school.\u00a0 Then they do not feel forced.\u00a0 If moving across town, take kids to visit the new house and explore the new neighborhood.\u00a0 For distance moves go to the Internet.\u00a0 MORE TO COME!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disruptive as moving is for parents, it can be more traumatic for kids, who are not part of the decision and might not understand it.\u00a0 Kids need time and attention.\u00a0 If the family has had a major life change, such as death or divorce you may want to wait for kids to adjust .\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1227,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions\/1227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}