Go with Dad to Work
How long is a whole day at work? For a child it is almost impossible to know, and waiting gets easier when time takes a visible shape. The pictures below split the day into pieces a child can follow.
♂With dad to work
A dad with a briefcase holds a boy's hand in front of an office building.
About this visual support
We'll go home soon means nothing to a child who cannot measure time in hours. A workday is abstractly long, and with nothing to hang the waiting on, the question of when can we leave becomes a constant companion through the whole day at dad's job.
Visual support makes time graspable by splitting the day into events instead of minutes. First dad sits down at the computer, then there is a coffee break, then lunch, then a last stretch, then home. The child does not need to understand the clock to see the pile of pictures shrinking, and each ticked-off image is visible proof that the way home is getting closer.
One concrete tip: link one of the pictures to something the child looks forward to, like the lunchbox or a trip to the coffee machine. Then the waiting is not just endured but gets its own little landmarks to look ahead to along the way.
If you want to show time even more clearly, you can add a timer in the Routined app beside the pictures, so the child sees both what is happening now and how much of the day is left.