Tips for an Easy and Successful Family Move

When making a move to a new neighborhood, there are a multitude of uncertainties that come with being in unfamiliar territory. There are feelings of uneasiness, stress, and even thoughts of whether or not you’ve made the right choice. To help ease in the moving process, True Homes in Charlotte suggests the following three tips for settling into a new community.

Be Open

With moves come many changes. Family members may become angry or saddened when they think of potentially losing close relationships and friendships they have built in the over the course of their lives. One way to help your family adjust to living in a new neighborhood is to let each family member discuss their feelings, whether positive or negative, about the move. Make sure to listen and respect each one’s feelings even if they do not reflect your own—be responsive and empathize with everyone.

Spread Positivity

Emphasize the positivity of the prospective move to your family. When entering a new community, it’s important to highlight the new surroundings for your children, as well as educating them on the possibility of learning about new cultures, and meeting new friends. Teach them that new learning experiences come in all shapes and sizes, and that this move will not be a negative life changing experience. Help them understand that even though they may not be a part of their former sports team or clubs, it doesn’t mean they don’t have the opportunity to enjoy all the same activities, only in a new and exciting environment with new journeys and fresh faces.

Take for example, turning the following negative worry into a positive scenario: if little Suzie is saddened that she will not be living next door to her best friend with whom she has frequent sleepovers with, let her know that friends are forever in our hearts and that they can always call each other, write letters and even visit one another other.

Explore

When actually reaching the new destination, spend family time getting to know the new surroundings. Become aware of the positive and exciting opportunities that you’re new town and neighborhood has to offer. Go on adventures as a family exploring new streets, restaurants, walking trails and any other activities that you enjoyed in the old neighborhood. Make sure to show each family member that the same activities can be enjoyed in the new neighborhood as well.

At True Homes, we believe that making a move shouldn’t be a time of negativity, but should reflect new hopes and aspirations. To learn more about our homes offered in Charlotte or Charleston, please visit our website at www.truehomesusa.com or call (704) 937-2307 to speak with one of our representatives directly.

Health Benefits of Living in a Green Home

With multiple communities in Charlotte, North Carolina and Charleston, South Carolina, the team at True Homes more than understands the importance and necessity of providing families with a safe, affordable, and most significantly, a healthy home. By providing green homes for our residents, True Homes is able to bring much more than just lower electric bills—you’ll enjoy real health benefits to help provide you and your family with a long and healthy life.

Reduction of Toxic Materials

For a lot of people, building and living in a new home comes with an almost unavoidable consequence of being exposed to harsh chemicals used in flooring, paint, and other construction materials. In today’s world, many non-green homes are comprised of compressed wood products that have been treated with preservatives such as formaldehyde; carpeting, which contains petroleum; and even countertops that may release trace amounts of uranium once they begin to decay. Life in a True Homes green home is designed with the health of your family in mind—meaning a healthy home contains almost no volatile organic compounds (VOC). In a green home, toxic materials are not used—allowing residents to see an immediate improvement in the safety, air quality, and overall health of all residing in their home. Of course, there are also numerous benefits associated with living in a home built with sustainable, eco-friendly materials and reduced electric bills.

Water Quality
Water is most essential to our everyday lives. Without water, or without properly filtered water, your risks of contracting contaminants like chlorine metals, VOC’s, and pesticides are greatly increased. Water quality isn’t only important for the water that you drink, you’re also using water brought in through your home to shower in, use to wash your laundry, and clean your dishes with. In a green home, a whole-house filtration system means that more than 99% of pollutants are removed from your water. Whole-house water filtration systems are easy to retrofit into an existing home, but can be even easier to install in a new construction home. Better water quality has been shown to greatly reduce the risk of you and your loved ones of developing respiratory problems, serious bacterial infections, and the onset of allergies.

Natural Light

Green homes are equipped with large, open, beautiful windows that allow much more natural light than traditional houses. Natural light not only brings down the cost of your electrical bills, but also brings improved psychological stimulation to you and your family that can result in increased happiness and natural vitamin D intake.

The benefits that come with living in a True Homes green home don’t just stop with this list—you’ll also enjoy the many perks of a vibrant, family oriented, blooming new community. To learn more about life with True Homes in Charleston and Charlotte as well as the steps we’ve taken to build some of the greenest homes on the market today, give us a call at (704) 937-2307 to speak with one of our representatives directly, or visit us online at www.truehomesusa.com.

5 Important Lessons to Teach Your Children

At True Homes in Charlotte, we understand that raising children comes with ups, downs, and everything in between. However, teaching your children important values while they’re in their formative years will pave the way for an easier parenting future and help ensure the success of your kids. Below are five of the cornerstone principles you can instill in your children as they grow into mature and successful adults.

Responsibility

When raising children, one of the most important and staple lessons you can teach your child is responsibility. Depending on your style of parenting, there are several ways you can teach your child responsibility, though a common theme involves always sticking to your word. Teach your child that if he or she commits to doing something, then they must do it regardless of circumstance. If a child commits to a sports team for instance, and they end up deciding that they may not like the sport mid-way through the season, you can teach your child others are now relying on their presence and they cannot let their team members down.

Respect

The second lesson on our list is respect. Teach your child that each person deserves to be treated equally and in their own right. Respect is something that should be given at all times to everyone, whether the person they are interacting with is a man or woman, older, younger or the same age. Teaching your child respect while they’re still young will allow them to better understand the imperative value as an adult.

Financial Responsibility

As with most childhood lessons, learning important values at a young age tends to transcend into our adult lives, and the importance of financial responsibility is no exception. When a child is given an allowance, putting a portion of the money into a piggy bank or another means of savings will allow the child to learn how to set monetary goals for themselves. This allows the child to form a thought process that becomes adult philosophy.

Education

Crucial lesson number four is the importance of education. Not only is it essential to provide your child with a stable understanding of schoolwork, but giving your child the freedom to educate themselves in something they are interested in teaches them that they can succeed in choices of their own. Whether your child enjoys art, the piano, sports, science or history, enable them to become educated further in a topic of their choosing.

Self-confidence

In today’s society, it has never been more important for children to be confident in themselves. Letting them know that if they are secure and strong in who they are and what they know and believe in; there is no need to feel disabled by others. An important part of developing self-confidence is to also let children know that throughout life, everyone will have different opinions, and it’s imperative to always stick to your own ideas.

Now that we’ve shared several cornerstone morals to be sure to teach your children, we encourage you to take a few minutes to visit our website to discover the values of True Homes in Charleston and Charlotte. For more information regarding our new family communities, visit us online at www.truehomesusa.com or contact one of our representatives directly at (704) 937-2307. We look forward to welcoming you to your new home.