Saturdays
A whole day without a schedule sounds like the best thing there is, right up until it starts. When nothing is decided, every choice becomes a small decision, and the day can disappear without anything really happening. The pictures below give a few fixed points.
♀Person reading in an armchair at the weekend
A smiling person sits in a green armchair reading an open book, beside a table with an alarm clock and a calendar marked SA and SU.
About this visual support
Free time and structure are often seen as opposites, but for many people they work best together. A day with no frame contains no break from choosing: every hour demands a new decision about what happens next, and for anyone already spending a lot of energy navigating daily life that becomes tiring rather than freeing. Saturday can then end in a feeling that nothing came of it.
Visual support does not have to fill the day in order to help. Three points are enough: something to do in the morning, a meal and something in the evening. In between the day is free, but it has a shape to lean on.
A concrete tip is to let the child choose one of the points themselves on Friday. A pre-selected option is easier to start than an empty field. In Routined the weekend can have its own simpler routine than the weekdays, and the app can be tried for fourteen days at no cost.
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In Routined you build schedules from these pictures, add timers and voice instructions, and your child follows the day on their own.
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