Go to dad
A move between two homes is more than a journey. It is also a change of rooms, routines, food and who says goodnight. The pictures below make the change manageable, so the child knows what gets packed, how the trip goes and what waits at the other end.
♀Go to dad
A child walks towards an adult with open arms, a yellow arrow between them.
About this visual support
Shared custody works best when predictability is given room. The child has to hold two systems in mind at once: where the toothbrush is, which clothes are where, who does the pick-up on Friday. Remembering all of that is a cognitive effort that returns every week, and it rarely shows on the outside because it does not turn into anything dramatic.
Visual support acts as a shared memory between the homes. A packing list in pictures means the same things travel every time, no matter who is helping. A picture of the journey and one of the arrival make the transition concrete, which usually eases the worry the evening before.
A concrete tip is to let one small thing always travel along, a soft toy or a particular pillow. Something present in both homes makes the switch less sharp. In Routined the changeover can sit as a routine of its own with packing and departure, and the app can be tried for fourteen days at no cost.
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