Take evening medicines
The clock matters for medicine, and the evening is exactly the stretch of the day when timings slide. The visual support below pins the pill and the glass of water to a fixed place in the evening order.
Evening medicine
A medicine bottle with a moon symbol, tablets and capsules, a glass of water and a clock.
About this visual support
Medicine that needs taking at roughly the same time every evening is easier to keep track of when it has a fixed neighbour in the routine. A visual schedule works as a stand-in for the clock here: instead of remembering a time, the tablet is tied to something that already happens, right after toothbrushing or just before the bedtime story. The order becomes the time.
Evenings are also the loosest part of the day. Dinner runs long, someone calls, a sibling needs help, and suddenly it is later than usual. With the cards up where the medicine is kept, it is immediately clear whether the step is done, and nobody has to ask each other whether it was already taken. One practical habit is putting the glass of water out in the same spot every evening: a full glass still standing there is visible proof that the medicine is still waiting.
The pictures below are free to download. In Routined you can give evening medicine its own place in the routine and watch it get ticked off, so both parents can see what is done. The app is free to try for 14 days.