RoutinedChocolate ball
A chocolate ball on a plate is one of the clearest promises in a child's day. With a picture on the schedule, your child knows when the treat is coming and that it means one chocolate ball. The pictures below show it on a plate.
Chocolate ball
A round chocolate ball sits on a yellow plate, surrounded by colourful sprinkles.
Chocolate ball on a plate
A chocolate ball seen from above on a white plate.
One chocolate ball
A single brown chocolate ball with small light flecks on the surface.
About this visual support
The question of when it is treat time can come up twenty times in one afternoon. Not because your child is nagging on purpose, but because waiting is invisible. There is nothing to look at that shows the treat is actually on its way, so asking becomes the only way to check.
When the chocolate ball is a picture on the day's schedule, the wait becomes concrete. Your child can see what has to happen before the treat, such as homework or tidying up, and count down the steps on their own. The picture also answers the next question before it is asked: it is one chocolate ball, not a whole plate. That makes it easier to hold a limit without an argument, because the limit is already on the schedule.
One tip is to use the picture in the same place every time, for example as the last step after homework on Fridays. The chocolate ball then becomes part of the rhythm rather than something to bargain for. If you bake them yourselves, the picture can also start a baking session where your child rolls the balls. If you want the treat to be a fixed point in the week, you can add it in Routined and try the app for 14 days at no cost.
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