Grandma leaves
The bag is in the hallway, the coat is on, and Grandma is about to leave. Right then your child needs to know what happens now and when you will meet again, and the visual support below breaks the goodbye into steps you can look at together.
♀Grandma leaves
An older woman carrying a suitcase waves goodbye as she walks away.
About this visual support
Goodbyes move quickly for adults and slowly for children. Grandma stands up, finds her coat and is gone, while the child is still inside the game they were playing a minute ago. What is missing is rarely warmth; it is information about what comes next and when the next visit will actually happen.
Pictures give that information a shape. A sequence showing the last game, the hug, the coat, the wave through the window and then the calendar with the next visit turns leaving into something a child can follow step by step rather than something that simply happens. Transitions go more smoothly when the ending is visible before it arrives, and a card with a waving hand becomes a signal your child can prepare for.
One practical idea: let your child do the waving from the same spot every time, the kitchen window for instance. That spot becomes a small closing ritual that belongs to Grandma and nobody else. In Routined you can add the visit to your child's day and mark the next one, so the question about when Grandma is coming back has an answer you can look at together.
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