I am the sixth of seven children so my house was very busy from the very beginning.  You had to scream to be heard above the noise at times. What little I remember of those early years is good. My dad would take us places and play with us. My Mom was at home with us all the time. It was when I turned five and we moved across the country that things began to change. My father took on contract jobs and was not home as much. My Mom became withdrawn at times. The three oldest children left the house in pursuit of jobs and marriage. With four of us left at home and my fathers job now taking him to different locations in the country our lives became unpredictable. When you have four children at home unpredictable is not what you want in your life. It was not like in the military where there was a built in support system, my mom was on her own each time we moved. When I was between the ages of five and seven we moved about four times. I was so sick of being the new kid in school. Change can be a good thing but too much change can be so overwhelming especially to kids. My little brother would hide his shoes in hopes that we would not be able to find them before the school bus came and he would miss the bus and not have to go to school. Some how we managed to find them even though he hid them really well. We may resist change but it comes weather we are ready or not.