Oh, boy. Having just tackled this problem in a recent prototype: I'm sorry for what's ahead. There are a couple of ways to do this, and neither are clean or simple.
Use CCLayer and add all the child you want to move,into this layer. When you want to move everything,move CCLayer in update.
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