Wash private parts
There comes a point where a child wants to handle washing private parts without an audience, and the instructions have to live somewhere other than your voice. The steps below let you close the door and still know the order is there.
♀Wash private parts
A child with braids stands in the shower and washes the private area with a light blue washcloth.
About this visual support
Independence in the bathroom is as much about privacy as it is about technique. The older a child gets, the stranger it feels to have an adult standing there listing what to wash and in what order, and yet this is a step where doing it properly actually matters.
A visual schedule moves the instruction off the parent and onto the wall. A laminated strip beside the shower says the same thing every day, and the child can check it without anyone watching. Hang the cards at your child's eye level rather than your own, and leave them up long after the routine seems learned, because most people lose the thread on a rushed morning.
If you want the same order on your phone while staying with family or away for the weekend, Routined keeps visual schedules and a timer in one place. The app is free to try for fourteen days, and the pictures on this page cost nothing to download.