Clean litter boxes
With two or three litter boxes, a short task becomes a long one. The hard part is not any single step but the knowledge that it comes again, and again. The visual support below lays out the full series so the child can see the end.
♀Clean litter boxes
A person cleans two litter boxes with a scoop and a trash bag next to a cat.
About this visual support
Cleaning one litter box is manageable. Cleaning three in a row is a different animal. The first usually goes fine, but somewhere after the second the stamina starts to slip. The smell has already settled in the nose, the hands already feel dirty, and the brain knows the job is not done. That repetition is why a child often leaves the last box, or rushes the last ones so much that little actually gets cleaned.
Visual support changes this by counting down for the child. When the whole series is laid out in advance, litter box one, litter box two, litter box three, stamina becomes an outside thing rather than something the child has to muster. They do not have to track where they are in the chain, the pictures do. And each tick gives a clear signal: one less to go.
A practical tip: finish each box completely before moving to the next, including fresh litter and a tied bag. It is tempting to collect all the waste in one big bag at the end, but by then motivation is at its lowest, just when the work gets most monotonous. Inside the Routined app you can split the same routine into numbered steps so the child sees exactly how many boxes are left.