Title:  Moving Stress
Feed: CWKN #444, July 1, 2009
Time:  1:38
SUGGESTED LEAD: ACCORDING TO THE CDC, ONE IN SEVEN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS HAS “SERIOUSLY” CONSIDERED SUICIDE; ONE IN 14 ACTUALLY TRIED. AND NEW RESEARCH FROM DENMARK HAS FOUND A REMARKABLE CORRELATION: THE MORE OFTEN KIDS MOVED … THE MORE LIKELY THEY WERE TO COMMIT SUICIDE. IT SEEMS MOVING FROM ONE NEIGHBORHOOD OR CITY TO ANOTHER IS MORE TRAUMATIC FOR KIDS THAN MANY REALIZE. CONNECT WITH KIDS HAS MORE ON HOW TO MAKE MOVING EASIER ON YOUR KIDS.
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NARR: JUST A FEW MONTHS AGO … WHEN THEIR MOM SAID THEY WERE MOVING, SEVEN YEAR-OLD AMBER AND NINE YEAR-OLD D’MARCUS HAD MIXED EMOTIONS.  (:07)

SUPER:  Amber, 7 years old (:10)
“She talked to me first and I was excited.  But I was a little bit sad because - I was sad because I was going to leave my friends.”

SUPER:  D’Marcus, 9 years old (:18)
“I was afraid of how we were going to know who our teachers are going to be.”

NARR: ROUGHLY 16 MILLION AMERICAN FAMILIES MOVE EACH YEAR … AND THE ADJUSTMENT CAN BE HARD ON KIDS. (:05)

SOT: Gary Santavicca, Ph.D., Psychologist
“The more preparation you have, the easier a transition is.”

NARR: SO, HE SAYS … START TALKING ABOUT THE MOVE AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE.

AND INCLUDE THE KIDS. HAVE THEM GET ON LINE TO LEARN ABOUT THE NEW CITY’S ZOO … THEIR NEW SCHOOL … OR THE NEAREST PARK …  (:12)

SUPER (quick): Gary Santavicca, Ph.D., Psychologist  (:45)
“Different things to help them feel like they’re helping to make it happen and it’s a family project.”

SUPER: Catherine Mitchell, Mother  (:49)
“I let them know that we were doing this as a family and that it’s not that mom is moving, but that we’re moving as a family.”

NARR: AND SHE WAS UPBEAT ABOUT THE NEW TOWN … NEW SCHOOL … AND MAKING NEW FRIENDS.  (:04)

SOT: Catherine Mitchell, Mother  (1:10)
“The bottom line is we communicated throughout the entire transition.  We kept a positive attitude.  I kept a positive attitude for them.”

NARR: AND IT WORKED … THE KIDS HAVE MADE NEW FRIENDS … THEY LOVE THEIR NEW SCHOOL … THEY HAVE ADVICE FOR OTHER KIDS:  (:06)

SOT:  D’Marcus, 9 years old
“I would say you shouldn’t be nervous.  You should just go ahead and do it and try to meet new people.”

SOT:  Amber, 7 years old 
“I would tell them that it’s alright.  You don’t have to be afraid, because it’s going to be okay.”

SUGGESTED TAG:   EXPERTS SAY THAT MOVING DURING THE SUMMER CAN MAKE THE TRANSITION EASIER FOR KIDS, BECAUSE THEY WON’T BE THE ONLY ‘NEW KID’ IN CLASS.