Plan move
A new home, boxes everywhere and a calendar nobody quite explains. For many children, a move becomes a threat before it even starts. The timeline in the visual support below makes the future visible.
♂Man plans move
A man holds a board with arrows, and a thought bubble shows a house, a moving truck, and a calendar.
About this visual support
When the entire home has to be packed up and relocated, time itself becomes the hardest part. The child does not know what happens on Friday, does not know what happens in two weeks, and the brain fills that gap with worry. A move is not one event, it is thirty events spread across a month.
That is exactly why a visual schedule works so well here. Each sub-step, packing the bedroom, labelling the boxes, saying goodbye to a neighbour, driving to the new address, picking up the key, unpacking the bed, gets its own image in an order the child can return to whenever they need. What used to feel like one huge threat becomes thirty small, manageable moments.
A concrete tip: let your child physically hold the picture of today's sub-step and move it to a finished pile. That tactile act of marking pack the toys as done gives a clear signal that the move really is progressing. In the Routined app you can build the whole moving week as its own routine with a timer, so your child sees both today and what comes next.