My Very Exciting, Sorta Scary, Big Move: A workbook for children moving to a new home (My Exciting Move)

This was a wonderful book that my kid loved working in when we were moving. It really helped her express her emotions and prompted her to think of the good things. Like designing her room in the new house. Would highly recommend this for any family who is moving.

This helped my kids process our move 13 hours away from family and friends. Thank you for a wonderful workbook! It really helped them walk through their emotions.

In preparing for a big move for me and my son, I found this book to be a great tool for us. He’s 4 so I had to modify some parts of the book to fit him but all in all this was a great purchase!

This book really helped open up some dialogue between my first grader before we moved across the country. She was able to use the activities in the book to help express what she was feeling, and the coping mechanisms offered were actually quite helpful. While I think there might be an over-emphasis on the sad and scary aspects of moving, it was over-all beneficial. I wish there were a few more sections included that helps get kids really excited about moving.

This is spot on for my 4-6-8 year olds. Some fun mazes, emotional preparation at their level, places to draw, and more. It has been really nice to sit down with them individually and talk thing through. I Definitely recommend getting 1 per child in that age range. My older kids (11&12) thought it was a bit childish and my 2 year old wouldn't have grasped any of it;) My only regret is that it is definitely focused towards non-homeschoolers (with a fair amount of focus on missing the old school and looking forward to the new school, etc) but no biggie:)

We were so crazed when we moved from CT to CA, that I was in desperate need of ways to prepare the kids without time to do the research. This workbook was exactly what we needed. I got one for each of my three children, ages 3, 6, and 9, and they each completed it in different ways. It helped them each to process such a stressful time for them through the fun exercises in the book. Now they will always have it to look back on and reference, but at the time, it gave them a sense of fun and confidence without as much of the anxiety. It gave us all words to discuss it openly. I highly recommend!!!

I have five kids and I vbought them each their own book to fill out. It was so helpful to learn that some of my kids were feeling unsure or more worried about moving than they let on. We were able to discuss ways to cope with our feelings and to be honest and clear about our feelings. It helped everyone support each other as we discussed our fears or concerns and some were super excited about moving. We checked things off the list like taking pictures with their principal and favorite teachers and friends. We made photos albums. Got everyone notebooks to write down their feelings. I recommend this to anyone with little kids if they have to move.

Great book to get children especially younger ones talking about their feelings we used with our 5 year old when moving house and will use again when we move internationally later in the year. It helped her to talk through her feelings

Gifted this book to a family that was moving. They were moved by the book and really loved it.

My boys absolutely loved this

Bought this for my son for our move and it’s a nice little workbook and gives us things to talk about as he was worried about his friends.

I work with foster children and we have two children about to move to long term care. I had tried to find story books which would help them, they are in the 5 - 10 age range. However, I couldn't find any which didn't focus on negative reasons for moving. This book though is such a gift of a find. It will suit the children perfectly as they are activity based, giving plenty of space for them to write their thoughts and feelings. They also focus very much on positive moves to a new home. So they can show pictures of their current room, what they would like in a new room, and what their new room actually looks like, for example. I can't recommend it highly enough, especially for children who are traumatised and need help to work through their emotions about such a massive upheaval in their lives, albeit a positive one. I have bought another copy to show colleagues as well.

My son is 5 and this really helped him with our move. He was so worried but we used a lot of the activities in this book to prepare and now we have moved we will still use the activities such as making new friends, setting up a lemonade stand, getting to know the neighbourhood etc. It really helped him come to terms with our move - definitely recommend this to anyone with children who are feeling apprehensive