Cohousing-L Mailing List: Moving Kids

[Tim Clark (gsadix]

I spent 20 years in the air force as a personal officer.  Personal has a 
lot to do with the movement of people form place to place.   The air 
force did a study on the effect of transfers on family members, 
especially the children.  What they found was that regardless of the 
what the children felt about the move if the parents were positive about 
it everybody ended up liking it.  And if the parents were not positive 
the opposite occurred.

I have yet to meet a child, 5 to 17,  that would say "Yes" to moving 
away from the familiar to the unknown.

I have read articles on how to engage the children in the process 
instead of having the move imposed on them.  Try a google search.

Tim