Moving House with Highly Sensitive Children

We’re soon moving house with three highly sensitive children. In just less than a month we get the keys to our new house. You know what they say about stress and moving? Well, it’s all true. And with a household of highly sensitives our home is a tense and excited one at the moment.

My focus at the moment is on helping my three children say their goodbyes properly. And get used to the idea of a new home, school and well, life!

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Opting for a Quieter Life

We currently live in the Randstad of the Netherlands; it’s a densely populated area in the west of the country. This is reflected in everything from our living space, our internet reliability (I kid you not) and schools.

At the end of May my husband’s fixed term contract with his employer came to an end after eleven years working there. He found a new job which allows us to make a radical change to our living situation.

We are moving to a village in the east of the country. It is more sparsely populated there, greener and offers more living space. It’s a conscious choice for a quieter life and more space to live it in. And we have made that trade off knowing it will take us away from family and friends. We know no one there.

A New School

My sons currently go to a relatively small sized school. However, they are in classes of 30+ (35 for my seven year old). They struggle with the activity and noise around them. Their new school in the east has less children in total than my sons’ three current classes combined.

They will spend two days next week at their new school to help them adjust to the change. They have already seen the school. And they have met some of the teachers and fellow classmates. But these two days will help them see how things work in their new school and how their days will be next school year when they start there. The boys are excited but anxious. They see the positives and the negatives. It’s a mixed bag of emotions for us all.

Goodbyes and Hellos

Although they know there will be lots of hellos in the coming months they are also aware that many painful goodbyes are coming. They will have to say goodbye to their teachers, their classmates and their friends. They will have to say goodbye to all the places they know so well and the only house they have ever lived in in the town they were born in.

There are good things to come, of that I am sure, and they are too. However, the next few weeks and months will be tough and so it will be quiet on here from me for a while. Moving house with our highly sensitive children presents challenges. But in our case, it also presents us with a whole lot of optimism.

Wish us luck! xx