Going visiting
At home your child knows where everything is. In someone else's house another adult decides which rooms are open, how long you stay and what happens at the door. The visual support below makes those unwritten rules visible before you ring the bell.
♂Going to visit someone
An adult and a child carrying a wrapped gift step through an open door.
About this visual support
What makes a visit demanding is that the rules change at the front door. At home your child knows which rooms are open, where the snacks live and when it is fine to slip away and do something alone for a while. At grandma's, at a friend's flat or next door, someone else decides, and the visit ends when the adults say so. Everything is new, and the child is still expected to behave more or less as usual.
This is where a visual schedule earns its place, because the whole visit can be walked through in advance at your own kitchen table, with nobody waiting. The pictures hold the order: ring the bell, say hello, shoes off, hand over whatever you brought, play for a while, say goodbye. The step worth showing early is the goodbye card, talked about before you even leave the house, so that leaving does not arrive as a shock in the middle of a game.
If you would rather carry the visit on a phone than on paper, you can build it as a routine of your own in Routined, using your own photos of the people you are going to see.
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