Put away the glass
Putting the glass back on the shelf takes five seconds, and that is exactly why it disappears before your child has thought about it. The visual support below turns that quick moment into something you can point at every time you pass the sink.
♀Put away the glass
A person places a glass on a shelf next to other glasses.
About this visual support
Five seconds is too short a moment to turn into a habit on its own. Your child drinks, leaves the glass on the counter and moves on to the next thing, and the step in between never gets any room. You remind, the glass goes up, and the next day another glass is standing in the same spot because nothing has stuck.
Visual support does unusually well with micro-steps like this one. A picture of the glass in a hand and a picture of the glass in the cupboard turn a quick sequence into something your child can see instead of only hearing in passing. Put the cards at eye level by the sink or inside the cupboard door where the glasses live, so the image sits exactly where the step belongs. A card by the tap tends to do more work than one on the fridge, because that is where your child is already standing when the glass is empty.
If you want the same order digitally, the glass can become its own step in a kitchen routine in Routined. The pictures on this page are free to download, and the app comes with fourteen days to try at no cost.