Helping Kids Adjust to a Relocation - Things for Kids to Do in Carlsbad and Nearby
Relocating to a new community from a distance with kids, especially older ones, can be a challenge. Leaving friends behind and everything they enjoy and are familiar with is tough on everyone.
When you couple that with the fact they may not know anything about the new community, which makes it feel that much more foreign, plus having to meet new kids and start a new school, you have a major emotional situation, for kids and their parent(s).
Bringing some reality to the move by a visit or two, combined with some fun times and activities the kids enjoy – sort of a vacation - can help make the move feel perhaps a bit more comfortable before it actually happens.
Taking time to learn about the new home, and all that the community offers, can help bridge the gap of old and new. And with kids’ familiarity with technology these days learning about the new home is relative easy. Plus they might really enjoy the research.
As with listings, I think photos and videos help to make the new home more of a reality for those who are relocating, and our blogs can do just that for kids who are moving. The visuals make the new home real, and something they can more readily identify with.
Providing guidance to those who are relocating and information about the new community, and especially things to do and see, could make a huge difference. They are buying a community, not just a house, so it’s useful to cover a broad range of information.
Take it a step further and target your information to the specific interests of the kids and parents? Find out what they like to do – hobbies, activities, interests, lifestyle – and provide more personal details. You can send emails with links to blog articles that specifically address these targeted interests, such as sports. You can also send along newspapers and local magazines (we have a bimonthly Carlsbad magazine that is chock full of great information about all there is to do here).
Being a resource for where to find information, such as schools (e.g., School Digger, Great Schools) is also important.
In Part 2 we’ll cover some specifics of things to do and see in Carlsbad from a real-life long distance relocation.
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