With mom
With mom can mean almost anything, and it is hard for a child to settle into something so shapeless. The visual support below makes the moment concrete, with a picture for what you do and one for how long, so the time together becomes something to look forward to.
♂With mom
A child and a mom hold hands beneath a red heart.
About this visual support
The word mom stands for safety, but as a message about what will actually happen it says almost nothing. Will you build, read, bake or just sit on the sofa together, and does the moment last ten minutes or the whole afternoon? For a child who wants to know what is coming, that openness can create more worry than anticipation, and a simple question about what to do can keep spinning without landing.
With one picture for the activity itself and one for how long it lasts, the togetherness becomes something the child can hold on to. Instead of a vague promise of time together, the child sees that you will, say, draw until the picture is turned over, and that this is enough. A concrete move is to let the child pick the activity picture in advance, so the moment becomes something you decide together rather than something the child waits out.
You can print the pictures below and put them on the fridge or keep them as a small deck to choose from. In Routined you can save several favourite moments with mom and add a gentle timer, and you can try the app free for fourteen days.
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