Wash front and back
Front before back is a simple rule, right up until the shower has to fit into five minutes and hands just do what they always do. The visual support below puts the rule outside the head, where it stays visible even at speed.
♀Wash front and back
A girl washes her front with one hand and holds a sponge behind her with the other.
About this visual support
The rule itself is not hard to grasp. Front gets washed before back, for straightforward hygiene reasons, so that bacteria do not travel where they do not belong. The tricky part is that the rule only applies in a situation where you are warm, wet, half awake and running late for the school bus. That is exactly when something that exists only as a spoken instruction from last week disappears.
Which is why pictures suit this particular step so well. A row of visual support cards in the shower shows the direction physically: you start here, you move there next, and the cloth gets rinsed or swapped in between. The order becomes something your child can see rather than something that has to be retrieved from memory under running water.
A practical trick is to use two clearly different cloths or sponges, say a pale one and a dark one, and let the pictures show which belongs to which part. The colour makes the mistake almost impossible, even at speed. If you want the same order on a phone while you are away from home, you can build the routine in Routined and try the app free for 14 days.