Parents worry their child feels rejected by a move

“Long story short, we received our notice to vacate simply because the home we’ve been staying in for years is being sold. we’ve been great tenants and the kids absolutely love the school systems that they’re in but this does not matter and will not change anything. We do know that with the house selling there is not a lot in the area that we can afford and we’re pretty sure that we’re going to have to move ways out meaning we will change schools and things will have to change. We have an eight-y”

“We are planning a move when the school year ends (early summer) and this will be the first big move the kids and my wife have experienced. I moved a lot when I was younger (nearly 21 times) and therefore have no issues with moving. I recall my parents telling us we were moving each time by asking us to go through our things and find stuff we didn’t want anymore because we were moving. They’d give us a date and location and show us pictures of the next place. We have moved before as a family, but”

“Hi fellow dads My wife and I are researchers and we have recently moved to a very different place than our home. It's temporary for 5 months. Our daughter is a very extrovert and charming kid who always makes friends very easily. At home she has a close group of friends and many acquaintances and we are surrounded by a good community. But since moving here a few weeks ago she has started acting out at home. Short temper, refuses to sleep, the usual 4year old stuff, but rather extreme. She is”

“My daughter is 4 and had her first day of school today. She started a bit late as we had a pre planned vacation. She had admitted she was nervous but seemed okay when her dad and I left. She had been in daycare since she was one and had a rough time at first but transitioned well. I received a phone call 20 minutes later to come pick her up and she wouldn’t stop crying. Was told her crying was too disruptive. So her dad picked her up and she seemed fine when he got there, I did hear her cry whil”

“I have a nine year old boy. He is super sociable and never had any issues with making new friends at school. A few months ago I had to get reallocated because of my work, and after a lot of thinking (and talking with our son) me and my wife decided to go ahead with it. He doesn’t have any siblings yet so on one side it was good for us to concentrate all of our focus into making sure he felt as safe and comfortable on the process, but on the other side because he has no siblings he has no one aro”

“I’m sorry if I used the wrong flair but I didn’t know what this falls under. We are moving to a new house this week and my son (5) starts a new school and I don’t know how to handle. He’s excited for the new house but says he doesn’t want to make new friends at his school because he doesn’t want to forget his friends from his old school. This stung ans I felt guilty because he had a friend at daycare that we saw a few times outside of daycare but couldn’t get together for play dates. Last year h”

“I’d really appreciate some objective opinions on this because I’m struggling to work out whether I’m being unreasonable or whether this is something worth pushing back on with the school. My daughter goes to school in New Zealand, it’s a small school and they only have one class per calendar year group/cohort group. The school year runs Feb-Dec, across four terms. Sorry if this is too NZ specific. My daughter is nearly 6 and started Year 1 this year in term 1. When she started school, there was”

“I’m a mom of 2. One 9 year old girl and one almost 1 year old boy. We currently live in a city of about 5k. It’s REALLY small. I moved here with my daughter when she was 4, right before she started 4k so this place is the only place she knows. I was a single mom and worked here as a 911 dispatcher. I needed to live where I worked since I was flying solo. A few years later I met my fiancé and we moved from my house to a house he bought. My daughter knew a girl on the street and quickly became bes”

“Life gave my (29) daughter a series of unfortunate events that caused her to choose to move cross country, multiple states away instead of just one. Well another series of unfortunate events came up causing her friend to bail on going with, and my daughter knew I’d offered already, but didn’t want me hauling ass to get there, and didn’t want to inconvenience me, like that would ever happen, but honestly she wanted the alone time to decompress. So she’s got a few hours left on the last leg of her”

“My 8 year old started school this week. All summer I made the usual jokes about being ready for school to start again and finally getting some quiet in the house. Yesterday while I was packing her lunch she asked if I was happier now that she was gone all day. I told her no and asked why she thought that. She said because I kept saying I could not wait for school to start. I meant that I was tired. I meant I missed having a routine. I never meant I was tired of her. She seemed fine after we talk”

“All the adult reasons are there: nicer house with more room to grow, an investment in the future, better neighborhood, security and having a forever home. Yet watching her play with the kids behind the apartment and knowing there aren’t any kids next door to the new house seems like an unkind cut to a primary school age kid. It’s going to be ROUGH when the van pulls away. Leaving friends with no replacements. Any helpful suggestions? submitted by /u/bengalstomp [link] [comments”