Night medicine
Medicine comes last in the day, when both children and adults have the least patience left, and it still cannot be skipped. The pictures below turn the final step of the evening into something short and clear.
Medicine bottle for the night
A dark blue medicine bottle marked with a cross sits beside a yellow moon and stars.
About this visual support
Evening medicine carries its own kind of friction. It has to be taken no matter what the day looked like, and it falls at the point where the last of the energy has already gone into tooth brushing and pyjamas. Add a taste that is hard to accept or a tablet that is hard to swallow, and the final five minutes become the heaviest part of the night.
Visual support helps most by making the moment short and identical every evening: bottle out, right dose, water, done. When your child sees the whole sequence at once, how much is left stops being an open question. One tip: give the water its own picture and put the glass out before tooth brushing, so nothing has to be fetched at the point where the mood is most fragile.
Routined can remind you about the evening medicine at a fixed time and show it as the last step of the routine, with a tick when it has been taken.
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