We also don’t plan to ask the kids for “permission” to move.
A comment on this: as a child, my parents moved twice in the space of a few years (basically, I never did more than two years in a row in the same elementary school). I never really even thought I should have been consulted, but in hindsight, those two quick moves probably contributed significantly to my attachment issues, as they both broke some nice friendships I had found myself in and pretty much taught me a sort of unconscious “don’t get too attached to people” lesson. Between that and the bad luck that the last school I ended up in was not quite as nice an environment for me as the first two, this probably had a big impact on me that I still feel the effects of. So, what I mean here is, it’s easy to consider the needs of children secondary to those of the big, important, money-making adults, but when it comes to things like these, a few key moments during development can have big impacts downstream.
A comment on this: as a child, my parents moved twice in the space of a few years (basically, I never did more than two years in a row in the same elementary school). I never really even thought I should have been consulted, but in hindsight, those two quick moves probably contributed significantly to my attachment issues, as they both broke some nice friendships I had found myself in and pretty much taught me a sort of unconscious “don’t get too attached to people” lesson. Between that and the bad luck that the last school I ended up in was not quite as nice an environment for me as the first two, this probably had a big impact on me that I still feel the effects of. So, what I mean here is, it’s easy to consider the needs of children secondary to those of the big, important, money-making adults, but when it comes to things like these, a few key moments during development can have big impacts downstream.