Living room table
The mug belongs in the kitchen, the book on the shelf, the sock in the laundry. What makes the living room table hard is not the number of things but that each one demands its own small decision, and the steps below sort those decisions for you.
Coffee table in the living room
A coffee table holding a mug, a remote control and two books.
About this visual support
A coffee table is in practice a collection point for six different rooms. On it sit mugs from the kitchen, books from the shelf, chargers from the bedroom and pens that belong in a desk drawer. For a child told to clear the table, the obstacle is not the work itself but the number of judgements that have to be made at once.
Visual support solves this by reordering the task. Instead of carrying one item at a time, the cards show a sorting order: everything for the kitchen first, then everything for the shelf, then the rubbish, then the wipe-down. That leaves four rounds instead of thirty small decisions, and it stays visible which round is running and how many are left.
One tip: put out a basket that gathers everything leaving the room, and let the last picture show the basket being emptied. The table gets finished even when the objects have not travelled all the way home yet. In Routined the table can sit as a short evening step before screen time, with the same pictures every time.
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