Car ride
The question always lands at about the same point: how much longer? For the child a car ride is a closed cabin with no visible stations, and motion sickness shows up before it can be named. The pictures below break the route into parts you can see.
♀Girl driving car
A girl is sitting behind the wheel of a blue car, driving.
♀Girl driving car
A girl is sitting behind the wheel of a red car, driving.
About this visual support
The hard part of a car ride isn't the length – it is the invisibility. No station goes by, no train switches tracks, no clear marker tells you how much is left. The child is strapped in, looking at the same stretch of asphalt, and starts asking at about the fifteen-minute mark. Meanwhile motion sickness can build up quietly, often noticed only when it is already too late.
Visual support for the car ride gives the child something that actually moves forward. Lay the trip out as three or four pieces: home, halfway, last stretch, arrived. Tie the halfway image to something concrete – a petrol station you always pass, a bridge, a sign. Then the question about time gets answered before it is asked. For motion sickness, an image of water and one of the eyes looking at the horizon can be brought in early, before nausea has settled.
A concrete tip: keep a small bag of dry crackers or apple slices in the car, linked to its own picture the child can point to. In the Routined app you can build the trip as a short visual timeline with markers along the route.