My Moving Activity Journal: Activities, Games, Crafts, Puzzles, Scrapbooking, Journaling, and Poems for Kids on the Move - Second Edition

Moving with children is made easier with this all-in-one Scrapbook, Journal, and Activity Book that guides kids through a family relocation and entertains them during the busy time of planning a move. Complete with over 100 encouraging and interactive activities, helpful icons direct young movers through journaling, exploring and discovering, geography, arts and crafts, and games and puzzles. Each activity covers specific moving topics in a fun and creative way. Build your child's confidence by positively addressing everything from remembering your home, schools, friends, and community to learning about the new ones you'll be moving to. Other activities creatively cover topics such as moving pets, packing, preparing for moving day, collecting addresses, staying in touch with old friends, making connections, safety, settling into your new community, and more. This book is filled with moving tips and includes answers to games and puzzles. The individualized format makes the activity journal easily adaptable to all ages, from pre-readers to teens. Moving is a unique opportunity to draw upon children's natural curiosity to encourage positive skills for getting through big changes. This Activity Journal facilitates transition through creating, playing, planning, learning, helping, working together, sharing feelings, and most importantly, having fun. For more details, visit www.soaringmoon.com.

Author Nicole L.V. Jaeger is founder of Soaring Moon LLC and is author and illustrator of ‘My Moving Activity Journal.’ She has moved over 20 times, starting as a young child, and most recently, as the mother of a young child. Having lived in nine different states from coast-to-coast, she has first-hand experience in moving for school, work, changes in family circumstances, and to be closer to family. My Moving Activity Journal combines her own moving expertise, research, and appreciation of what it is like to be a little kid in the middle of a big change. Since early childhood, she has written stories and poems, and she drafted her first moving journal during one of her own big moves at the age of thirteen.

Nicole L.V. Jaeger is founder of Soaring Moon LLC and is author and illustrator of "My Moving Activity Journal." She has moved over 20 times, starting as a young child, and most recently, as the mother of a young child. Having lived in nine different states from coast-to-coast, she has first-hand experience in moving for school, work, changes in family circumstances, and to be closer to family. The Moving Activity Journal combines her own moving expertise, research, and appreciation of what it is like to be a little kid in the middle of a big change. Ms. Jaeger brings a multidisciplinary background and a passion for creating to Soaring Moon. Her background includes work as an attorney with a J.D. from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, administration of her family's general contracting business, work as an ecologist with a B.S. in Ecology & Systematic Biology at Cal Poly University in San Luis Obispo, California, research in environmental science at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and teaching environmental education for a Y.M.C.A. program in the wilderness of northwestern New Jersey. Since early childhood, she has written stories and poems, and she drafted her first moving journal during one of her own big moves (1475 miles!) at the age of thirteen. Her longest move was over 3000 miles. Her most important, challenging, and rewarding job has by far been caring for her two young children.