Survival Kit: Moving with Small Children Edition

Post date: 2019-07-17 04:09:59

Am helping my kid move her two young children to their new home. We are going via train, grandkids are 2 and 4. Would love tips on helping her and the kids survive and manage the 4 days before the 4-hour train trip and the 3 days after we arrive.

I am helping my over the course of one week. The help is simply being the best possible grandma, not moving boxes. The 4-year-old is intense, probably neuroatypical (and don't @ me please, so am I, so are others in the family). I have activity books, etc. but am looking for tips, tricks, strategies for helping the tots and my kid ease into a completely new town with lots of woods nearby (yay) but no structure to speak of (it is summer!). Easy, age-appropriate ways to help keep the kidlets happy, ideas for a reasonable schedule, etc. would be most welcome.

The kids have access to an iPad; what I want is ideas that keep them happy away from the screen for realistic chunks of time (15 minutes? 20 minutes?). Also a structure we can actually use that is not overly rigid but still gives us a foundation for each day, a foundation I can communicate to the little ones. Thanks, hive mind!

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