Christmas
Christmas turns everyday life upside down with relatives, unusual food and presents that cannot be opened yet. The picture below shows a decorated tree with gifts underneath and can be the starting point for a schedule for the whole day.
Christmas tree with presents
A decorated Christmas tree with a star on top and presents and a Santa hat underneath.
About this visual support
Everything that makes Christmas special is also what makes it hard to predict. Breakfast is different, the house fills with guests, the food smells new and the presents sit under the tree for hours before anyone may touch them. For many children it becomes a lot at once, and what adults see as cosy can feel like a long day without fixed points. The worry is rarely about Christmas itself but about not knowing what comes next.
The visual support shows a decorated Christmas tree with a star on top and presents and a Santa hat underneath. Use the picture as the heading for the day and build a simple schedule beneath it: breakfast, time outside, guests arrive, dinner, presents. When your child can see that the presents come after the meal, the wait is easier to bear because it has an end. Plan a quiet moment alone in the middle of the day too, with its own picture in the schedule, so the break is decided in advance and does not have to be negotiated once it has already become too much.
In Routined the Christmas schedule can be built with pictures and a timer ahead of time, and the app can be tried for 14 days at no cost.
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