This workbook is a companion to Lauren Wells’s first book, The Grief Tower. In Unstacking Your Grief Tower, the principles of the grief tower metaphor are broken down into applicable sections for adult TCKs (aTCKs) and each chapter ends with reflection questions and space for the reader to write their answers.
TCK life is full of losses from moving and being in a mobile community where others are coming and going around you. Taking the time to process the accumulated grief is important and this short workbook is a great resource to help with that.
This is a wonderful little workbook for children preparing to move. It has tons of space to write and cut out pictures. It’s great for recording everything about the place you live and the place you’re going to move to, and has sections on addressing worries, saying goodbye to friends, saying good riddance to things they will leave behind, and goodbye to the things they’re going to miss. Includes a bunch of fun stickers at the end!
Reading level: age 6-10 years
8 – 12 Jahre
This workbook is also available in English.
Starting from when a kid is preparing to move until they’re settled in their new home, this colorful workbook gives kids a chance to process the whole moving experience. A little migratory bird named Nor guides the process with colorful pages and chances to draw pictures and write out answers to questions. There are five chapters to this book:
- Where and how you are right now
- The place you are moving to
- The move is on the horizon
- Get ready for moving day
- You have arrived
I think this is one of the best workbooks for kids who are moving internationally, whether it’s their first or fifth move. It asks great questions and it’s wonderfully illustrated and engaging.
This workbook was originally written in Swedish and available in both English and Swedish.
Reading level: age 6 – 12 years
“Collect memories, process the move and celebrate the future with activities, ideas, and games in this workbook.”
This workbook for kids preparing to move internationally was created by an expat mom of four US foreign service TCKs. It is designed to help pre-school & elementary kids to record their memories of the old home, prepare to move, and discover their new home.
This workbook covers different topics than many similar books, and this makes it especially good for TCKs, who are clearly the intended audience. One page, however, talks about Americans who have moved throughout history, which may seem odd to TCKs from other countries.
Reading level: 6 to 11 years
This small, full-color book is written TO kids who will be moving about what to expect and how they may feel about it. It includes variety of activities for kids – some to help them process the move (e.g. “Circle or coloring pictures of things you will miss”); others that are not moving-specific (e.g. mazes, word search, etc). Some things it covers don’t fit typically for moving overseas (e.g. a real estate agent helping you choose between various types of US houses) but would be fine for TCKs moving TO the US from another country.
Reading level: 4 to 10 years (as per the title…)
