Hi everyone! I hope you are all recovering well from your action packed Holiday Programmes and are gearing up for Term One activities. As one of the newbies to the OSCAR Foundation team, I am keen to get out and about and begin visiting programmes in my region.
A lot of changes have been happening in my life recently, I got married, started a new job and relocated to Auckland. With change comes a lot of new challenges and I continue to discover just how much our attitudes dictate how quickly and smoothly we adapt.
It is the time of year where children are possibly experiencing a lot of changes in their lives. Some are attending new schools, have new teachers and new classmates, some may even live in new towns or new homes. It is important as OSCAR providers to take this opportunity to ensure that children in our programmes are settling in well and adapting to their new circumstances.
Support them to have a positive outlook and to find the good in a situation. Maybe pair them up with a child who has already embraced change, then they may not feel so alone and they will also make a new friend in the process.
How a child learns to adapt to change dictates how they are likely to react to it as an adult so why not start encouraging them now to take it on as a positive challenge rather than a negative setback. As my mother always said, “It’s character building!”
Susannah
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