No Screens Until 10
A rule about waiting until ten means little to someone who cannot feel how long an hour lasts, so the wait stays abstract and frustrating. With pictures of what happens until ten, the time gets content. The steps are below.
No screens until 10
A mobile phone and a clock with a red prohibition sign over them.
About this visual support
Clock times are abstract. For a child who cannot yet feel how long an hour is, no screens until ten says almost nothing beyond the fact that something longed-for is at a safe distance and that the time until then is empty and impossible to grasp. The rule then becomes a source of whining rather than a frame that helps.
Visual support swaps the invisible clock time for things you can actually do. When the pictures show eat breakfast, get dressed, play for a while and look at the clock, the way to ten fills up with concrete steps. The child does not count minutes but works through pictures, and when the last one is done it is time. The wait becomes something to fill rather than something to endure.
One concrete tip: put a picture of a clock showing exactly ten at the end of the row, ideally looking like your real clock. Then the child can compare for themselves and see when the moment is near without asking. If you want to link the morning chores up to screen time, you can build the order in the Routined app and let the last picture be the screen.