Packing For Parents: Involving Your Children In The Move
When the time comes for a family to move from one home to the other, children can feel as though they are in the way when parents are packing boxes and trying to get everything together. Children can be of help to parents in packing. Parents can designate and area of the home for children to pack or they can all help as a family and do one room at a time. When children are assigned one area of the home to pack belongings in boxes form, they feel important and like they are part of the moving process. This can be a very easy job and can be given to young children as well as old. Parents will need boxes that are either cardboard or plastic totes. Children can easily begin to pack things away from their own rooms. They already know where everything is and can pack away what they really want to take with them. This is also an easy way to get their room cleaned and to get rid of anything that they don’t want anymore. Younger children can put stuffed animals into boxes and can even make packing a game. Playing basketball by trying to shoot animals or non breakable toys into a box can get children involved and it also takes their mind off the move. Clothing can also be something that children can pack away. Parents may want to leave this to older children so that clothes are folded neatly and not thrown into a box. Children can pack toys into boxes and keep the same type of toys such as dolls or trucks in the same box. This way parents and children know where everything is. Parents can also help their children in packing by taking one room at a time and telling each person what can go into a box and what is not supposed to.