Sit on the sofa

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A sofa signals rest, but the need to move does not disappear simply because someone has sat down. The pictures below make it clear what the body is meant to do during sofa time and how long it goes on for.

A man sits relaxed on a blue sofa with his hands resting on the seat.

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Man sitting on the sofa

A man sits relaxed on a blue sofa with his hands resting on the seat.

A man sits calmly on a blue couch with his hands resting on his lap.

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Man sitting on a blue couch

A man sits calmly on a blue couch with his hands resting on his lap.

In the middle of a brown couch, a man sits and smiles.

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Man sitting on a brown couch

In the middle of a brown couch, a man sits and smiles.

About this visual support

Sitting down is easy. Staying there is not. A sofa is built for rest, but a child with movement still left in the body experiences sitting as a task rather than a pause, and slides down, climbs onto the backrest or gets up again after half a minute.

Pictures give the moment content the hands can hold on to. Show what happens on the sofa, such as the blanket, the book, the soft toy or the series you watch together, and show how long it lasts. Rest is easier to carry out once it has a shape; the abstractness of simply relaxing is often the actual difficulty.

Give the body something heavy. A blanket over the legs or a cushion to lean into provides pressure that makes staying put considerably easier, and children with a strong need to move often need that feeling before sitting works at all. In Routined the sofa moment can be its own step in the evening with a picture and timer, and the app can be tried for 14 days at no cost.