Best time to move with 10 year old

[Anonymous]

Currently navigating the divorce process and trying to decide the right time to move.

Our son is currently finishing 4th grade, starting 5th in the fall. He attends an elementary outside of our home school cluster, so he was always going to attend a different MS than his ES friends.

My question is, do I move now and have him start 5th grade in the new school cluster, so he can make friends before starting middle school? Or let him finish out the year in his current school, and make the transition when he starts 6th grade?

Third option is to move sooner, drive him to school, make new friends in the neighborhood through socializing, activities, and camps next summer.

[Anonymous]

I moved my kids during divorce process so that they would start their last year in elementary at a new school. This way they have a year to make friends before middle school.

I see no need to do option 3 at this age.

Just be sure to move before middle school starts. My parents moved me in the middle of middle school and I hated that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Currently navigating the divorce process and trying to decide the right time to move.

Our son is currently finishing 4th grade, starting 5th in the fall. He attends an elementary outside of our home school cluster, so he was always going to attend a different MS than his ES friends.

My question is, do I move now and have him start 5th grade in the new school cluster, so he can make friends before starting middle school? Or let him finish out the year in his current school, and make the transition when he starts 6th grade?

Third option is to move sooner, drive him to school, make new friends in the neighborhood through socializing, activities, and camps next summer.

I would let him finish 5th. It's a natural transition.

[Anonymous]

Talk to him.