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pre-teen does not want to move

So, We just moved about two years ago and my daughter started a new elementary school in 5th grade. She was worried about making new friends but she became friends with a handful of kids and was really happy. She is now attending middle school and has those same friends in lots of classes with her. She is blooming into a beautiful kind young lady. We live in a town home right now and have an opportunity to buy my mother in laws house for really cheap and it has 5 bedrooms plus a fenced in yard(ideal for our growing family) This opportunity can not be matched. We want to make the move but it would be twenty minutes away from where we live now in and my daughter would be in a different school district. She does not want to start over and make new friends and I don't blame her. I am thinking of keeping her in the same school and just driving her but I feel like I am setting myself up for extra stress and my daughter will not be able to get to know kids in our new area. Also the price of gas and transporting my 2 year old and 1 year old plus more in the future twice a day to get her to school and back feels like a lot of inconvenience. Any advice........anyone?
Posted by Karla on 10/07/2008 05:01 PM

Based on my family's experiences with kids being moved at that point in their schooling, I would try to keep her in the district she's in now if it would not be too much of a hardship for the family. However, if it is going to be too hard to take her to the other school each day she will eventually make friends in the new school and will be close enough to have sleepovers or whatever with the friends from the old school. Change is inevitable and often unpleasant, but rarely impossible to deal with.
posted by Kelly on 10/08/2008 09:54 AM

I would say make the move but make sure it's your last if you can help it at all. She can still call and meetup with her old friends and still make new ones in the new school. In the long run it will help her get ready for the changes she will deal with when she graduates and goes to college or when she moves from home. ;)
posted by DESTINY on 10/13/2008 10:35 AM

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