Come home
The door swings open and the whole day pours into the hallway at once: coat, shoes, hat, bag, hunger, impressions. The visual support below splits coming home into steps so your child does not have to decide it all at once.
♂Man coming home
A smiling man stands in front of a house with a dotted, curved arrow indicating movement towards the house.
♂Come home
A person walks towards a house with an arrow indicating the direction home.
♂Come home
A person points towards a house with a curved arrow indicating coming home.
About this visual support
The hallway is often the most overloaded place of the day. Your child comes home full of impressions from preschool or school, maybe heavy legs and a brain with no room left for instructions. Right then, the shoes need to come off, the coat needs to go on the hook, the hat into the drawer and the bag emptied. No wonder so many children get stuck halfway out of a coat or sit down on the floor with one shoe on.
When coming home is laid out as pictures next to the door, your child does not have to keep the order in their head. Step one points to itself. A concrete tip: build in a pause after the coat goes on the hook, a short moment where your child sits on a stool or drinks a glass of water before anything else is expected. The hallway calms down when there is a stated breathing space.
Once the order settles, you can move it into the Routined app and have the same steps on a phone.