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Show Horotd HqUo "T the least visible of the poor. At the moment Travelers Aid is the only agency in the country concentrating on help for moving families. What can families do to make moving as painless as possible? First and most important is planning both economic and psychological. If a job is needed the head of the family should go alone to the new city and really explore the possibilities of work there. At least check with government agencies, or friends or relatives, before takin'the x plunge. the Equally important in the opinion of all chiltheir experts is the need for parents to give dren leadership. This is especially true of school-ag- e shifts youngsters. Toddlers can usually make so are since closely much they trouble, without linked to their families. The key person is invarion a ably the mother. Although a move is harder she says Thelma Whalen of Dallas, how and her husband react will influence how her children react. woman, Summer moves are best The Association for Childhood Education International urges parents to move, whenever when school possible, during the summer months, is out. (Some 40 per cent already do this.) If this is do their impossible, parents and teachers should utmost to ease the transition. Surprisingly, teachers surveyed by the Association said one of the records biggest problems was getting the childs hint useful Another school. the from previous new their children explore to help urges parents advenan neighborhood. Try to make the move ture whenever and however possible, Savilla Simons says. Read up on where you are going, build up a sense of anticipation. Thelma Whalen emphasiies the need for parents to listen and support their children in the first Make them few weeks in their new environment. their families, that feel they at least belong inside here people care about them. They are probably other having a rough time getting accepted by e for watch to Two children. danger sipals Eds who and withdrawal. move too much tend to go in either of these two directions. They get very pushy from trying too hard to break into new groups. Or they just quit Whalen says. trying and become loners, Mira of American number Obviously a remarkable families have already adapted very well to the nomad lifer Many, including the children, frankly for example the families of more than enjoy it workers counted by Alvin construction million a Schorr, who like living in trailer homes. Recently the Child Psychiatry Service at Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington studied two, one disturbed, the other groups of youngsters normal. The prediction, before the tests, was that the disturbed group would show a higher both groups had degree of mobility. Actually, One experienced a very high degree of mobility. their in success, had thrived on it. The key factor of say researchers, was their parents acceptance officers of A life. study Navy mobility as a way of children reached a similar conclusion. A half century ago H. G. Wells predicted that the population of Utopia would be migratory Let us hope that beyond any earthly precedent. the emergence of this healthy, adventurous new breed of mobile families is proof that Americans have not lost their conviction that if Utopia ever are comes, it will be here in a land where people the in for happiness search relentlessly free to thk spirit of their pioneer forefathers. dj Anxious or o tenteW Mowing brings out the pioneer in some JamUies the insecurity THIS WtK KtogwiM in others M. lM 7 |
