Well, you can tell from the moving vans and the happy faces around base that PCS season is here again. This is the first time my kids (4 and 2) will be old enough to miss friends that are leaving.
Surprisingly, I could only find a limited amount of information on helping small kids through the loss of their friends. What is available is geared mostly towards older kids (like this) and about helping kids prepare for moving themselves, but I wasn't able to find anything about preparing little kids for their friends moving away.
Here is a nice article from military.com that includes some tips and a list of kids books that might be helpful if you are PCS'ing:
Military.com article
If you're staying here, like we are, share your tips in the comments for helping your kids say goodbye to the good friends they've made here.
Anna, guest blogger
1 comment:
The last time we moved (to Korea), my husband made a PoewrPoint presentation using images grabbed from Google Earth. The images showed where we lived and where we were moving to. We showed my kids and also his young friends so they could get an idea of what was happening. It was a fun way to show what was going on.
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