Military Children

The need to be able to adapt is necessary for every military child since conditions will not always be perfect. Sometimes orders are cut short and a family may have to move before they expected. Two of the most influential years in shaping my background were the two years I spent living in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba where adaptability was of the utmost importance. For example, since everything was shipped to the base on on a barge and sometimes the barge was delayed, the local store would often be out of many products. If one needed something that was out of stock, he or she was simply out of luck and had to make due with what there was. Furthermore, the small student population made for small class sizes sizes and limited resources but despite this we attended school everyday and made the most of what we had. Despite of all these challenges, I thoroughly enjoyed my time there and was adaptable in order to adjust to all the changes from the United

Since children go through so many social, emotion, and educational needs the "Military Child in Transition and Deployment" website was formed to offer advice and resources for changing schools to military children and their parents to make their moves easier. For the youths, the site teaches youths to the importance of having keepsakes while their parents are deployed. For the teens, the site can help provide advice on colleges that would normally be provided by a parent (Desjarlais, 2004).

Military families live all across the United States and more than likely you know at least one or you, yourself, are actually a military family. In the excerpt from “Military Children and Families” by Nansook Park, Park argues that greater attention needs to be established by psychologists towards military families in order to implement more effective programs to help support military families. To support her argument, Nansook Park uses an effective amount of pathos and logos, citing credible psychological studies and along with pathos and logos, she uses ethos as well.

Moving far away from family and friends can be tough on a child at a young age. It has its pros and cons. One learns how to deal with moving away from the people they love and also learn how to deal with adjusting to new ways of life. Everything seems so different and at a young age one feels like they have just left the whole world behind them. That was an experience that changed my life as a person. It taught me how to deal with change and how to adjust. It developed me from a young boy into a mature young man.

called her discipline “tough love”. Yeah right, my ass it wasn’t tough love. She could dissemble

Imagine at twelve years old being forced into war and having no way out. Then, quickly being dragged out and pushed back into society. Life was not easy and “normal” did not exist for Ishmael and his friends. In The Making and Unmaking of a Child Solider he shows the readers that he faced mental, physical, and emotional abuse before/after the war. Beah wants the readers to understand that life was not easy in Sierra Leone and not everybody made it out alive or sane.

For distant moves, you can provide as much information as possible about the new home and location. Access the internet with your children to learn about the new community. See if someone can take pictures of the new house and new school to show your children, or look up photos on the internet with them.

Moving is very stressful on anybody, especially for children. When my mother made the decision to move to Piedmont, I was in shock. I have been in the same school district for seven years with the same friends that I loved and was very comfortable around. Moving to a new town freaked me out. I have never heard of Piedmont, and did not realize that it was 30 minutes from where I lived. My uncle-in-law graduated from Piedmont. Both of my cousins also graduated from Piedmont, the Cornman’s. I had a new life ahead of me, and did not know what to expect.

According to the Department of Defense Education Activity website, “the average military child will move six to nine times during a school career”—three times more frequently than non-military children (DoDEA, 2016). Because of this, military children have difficulty in school due to “differences in achievement standards, school protocols, course offerings, extracurricular activities, and academic requirements” (DoDEA, 2016). According to the Department of Defense Education Activity website, the Department of Defense Dependents Schools are schools who serve more than 73,000 children of active duty military and Department of Defense families.

One thing that all military installations offer to families is a mock deployment line. A mock deployment line is a wonderful thing for a child to experience. During a mock deployment line, the child will go through all of the steps their parent does when preparing to deploy. It cannot be stressed enough to parents the importance of informing their children’s caregivers and teachers that a parent will be deploying. Doing so is a vital step in helping the child cope with the upcoming separation. The child’s teacher, once informed of an upcoming deployment will help the child cope by incorporating activities such as reading books where a family member is taking a long trip, or talking with all the children about how they feel and why they feel the way they do into their lesson plans. Parents need to make sure they do not put off telling children of the deployment, letting their children know about the deployment as soon as possible will provide them the opportunity to become involved in preparing for the separation. Children will want to have many conversations with their parents about the deployment; parents need to make sure that they keep the discussions honest, straightforward, and factual (Clash, 2008).

Living in Mississippi for the longest out of any other place felt comforting, and it was odd to be leaving. Moving because of the military was quite annoying at times, my dad had just completed 15 years and had been given sets of orders a couple times before California but they had fallen through. We had the chance to be stationed in places such as Italy, Hawaii, or Japan, which sounded much more fun and exciting to me, however they had fallen through because of family issues. I did not enjoy the adventures of moving and didn’t realize the valuable lessons and experience it would give us. Admiring my parents for always seeming so adventurous and believing they could do anything, nothing affected them for a prolonged period of time, they would always make the best out of everything that occurred. Realizing how much they had to endure from the military made me wish that I could exert the same behavior, but I didn’t know how they had such a positive attitude about the military life., how they stayed so

Here are a few tips to help you prepare your kids for the big move.

You are fighting on the front lines and you are standing 50 feet away from a four and a half foot tall soldier with a black mask on their face that only shows the color of their eyes. You think they look a little short and you start to get confused. The next thing you know the person to the right of you was just shot by this soldier and you look at the soldier and he is wildly shooting and getting pushed back due to the force the gun is shooting with. With the next shoot that leaves the barrel of the gun he falls to the ground and his mask comes off. You realize he isn’t a soldier; he is a child. You can see in his eyes that he is being drugged and he is high off the drugs. He starts to cry because he shot so many people but you don’t know if he is faking it because he wants you to go and comfort him so he has a better aim to shoot you if you are closer to him. Some child soldiers volunteer themselves to the army but that is only because

Perhaps the most crucial trick for moving with children is to stay as calm and upbeat as possible. Your children take their cues from you, so project a confident and happy demeanor about your move. Soon you will all be comfortably settled into your new home and resuming your old

Child solider are any children under the age of 18 who are recruited by a state or non-state armed group and used as fighters, cooks, suicide bombers, human shields, messengers, spies, or for sexual purposes.