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I'm in with Ali, we came out in Jan with 3 kids under 9.
They knew all about it from each stage from 2yrs ago when we were here on a holiday reccie to Oz to Aug last year when completing the application became a reality, and we were honest about it being difficult to leave friends & family.
It helped our older boys to understand that life out here would be the 'same but different' ie still home/school/family but in another place. We helped them focus on the +ves and said there would be tough times as well. We were lucky that our move coincided with the usual Xmas/newyear hype, so when we flew out it felt to them like an extension of the Xmas holidays.
They missed their friends & their stuff. The stuff came in the container, and the friends are contacted through email & letters. They have settled well into their new yr 4 & 2 classes. The baby knows no different, and goes to playgroup. Same but different for us.
Good luck with it all, the advice about diaries & keeping a record of their UK life is great, looking back, I wish we'd done more of that!
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