Moving With Kids
Moving is one of life’s most stressful events, and it is particularly hard on children. However, if you include children in the whole moving to Colorado process they will feel less stress and more involved.
Keep them informed
From the very beginning of your move, keep your children informed. Tell them as soon as you know where you’ll be moving and explain why. The more time they have to accept the move, the easier it will be. Make sure to consider moving over the summertime so they won’t have to leave their school and friends mid year.
Research your new neighborhood
If you are moving to another area of the country, or even a new area of Colorado, do some research and show them some of the exciting places near their new home. Show your children pictures on the Internet of their local schools, shopping malls, zoos or other places in which they may have an interest. Your children will feel less fearful about their new home if they’ve seen pictures of the area.
Answer their questions
Children will want to know about their rooms. Will they have to share a room? Can they still have a fish tank in their bedroom? Answer their questions and reassure them that their lives will be very similar to the lives they have now. Encourage them to ask any questions they might have about the move, and you will eliminate their fears and worries.
Get their input
Include your children in some of the minor decisions that accompany moving. Ask them what color they want their rooms painted. Inquire as to what they want to have for breakfast on moving day. Let them feel they have some control over the move, and they will feel empowered.
Ask for their help
Tell your children that you need them to help you with the move. Ask them to start a throw away box for old clothes and toys they no longer need or use. Tell them to create a moving day box for special toys that they want to take with them in the car or on the plane.
Explain how to stay in touch with friends
If your children are concerned about leaving friends, assure them they can stay in touch easily with email, Skype calls, phone calls or texting and tweeting. Young children will show less concern about leaving friends, but it’s good to let them know they can call their friends and tell them all about their new home.
Keep a positive mood
If the adults have a positive feeling about the move, children will have a much easier time adapting. If adults feel conflicted or sad, children will become more stressed. Focus on all the wonderful reasons for moving to help your children feel positive, hopeful and excited about the change.
About the author: Scott Daniels moved a lot growing up, almost once a year. He loves exploring new places and finding hole in the wall coffee shops no one’s heard of before. To fund his explorations he works for HireAHelper.com – the easiest place on the web to compare and book movers.
Legal rights and obligations associated with moving
Here is a list of legal rights and obligations associated with moving.
There are too many chores to be completed before, and at the time of, moving from existing premises to new premises. In the flurry of activity that always accompanies moving people tend to neglect their legal rights and obligations. This negligence can lead to a lot of stress at a later date.
1. Consumers, i.e., those who are moving to new premises, are legally entitled to receive an estimate from the movers that would be final and legally binding. Effectively, this estimated amount is the maximum that the moving company would be entitled to collect from the consumer. Moving Companies may present to the consumer a contract that is incomplete in some respects, and which lets them claim additional sums under any clause. Consumers will be well within their rights if they refuse to sign such incomplete contracts. However, consumers need to read the contract completely and understand the implications of its content to identify such incompleteness.
Consumers are also not under any obligation to seek quotation only from one mover. In fact, there are many moving companies* at colorado movers. So obtaining estimates from different companies would help the consumer in taking an informed decision apart from getting a better bargain. The consumer is also not obliged to disclose the quotation received from one moving company to another. However, while trying to decide on the right moving company, it is necessary to scrutinize the contents of the agreements associated with each estimate and understand their implications completely.
2. There are conditions applicable to consumers as well. These are disclosed by the moving company. Any reservations that moving Companies have for moving specific goods should be noted and any responsibilities that are agreed to in the contract must be complied with for timely completion of moving. Consumers need to understand the extent to which the moving company would be liable. This may entail getting moving insurance at times, but it would be worth it instead of worrying about such things.
Exercise and fulfill your rights and obligations to avoid future headaches.
Movers expect a complete list of materials that are to be transported. It is, therefore, obligatory on the part of the consumers to furnish such lists of inventories to the moving contractors. Preparing a list and inventory is time consuming and such movers do offer such services as well. However, it is always better not to avail this service. The language used in contracts these days is no longer as complicated as it used to be. Therefore, anybody can understand the content of moving contracts.
For more information on your rights and obligations as a consumer also visit the bureau of consumer protection.
