Bring keys
Shoes on, jacket on, door open, and the keys are missing. That tiny object is the one most often forgotten, even when the rest of the morning is sorted. The visual support below adds the step before the door closes.
♀Girl holding keys
A girl with braided hair holds a set of keys and smiles.
About this visual support
Keys are the smallest object in the entire morning routine, yet the one that decides whether the child can get back inside after school. Everything else can be sorted, but without keys they end up locked out on the doorstep. The mismatch between object size and consequence is exactly what makes it so easy to forget.
A visual support for keys lifts the detail from a spoken reminder to an image that sits where it needs to be used. Put the card near the shoe rack, not in the kitchen, so the prompt arrives at the exact moment the shoes are on and the door is half open.
One concrete tip: keep a fixed hook for the keys next to the picture card, always the same spot. The visual then points to a physical habit instead of just being a symbol. Once that part works, the whole leaving moment can live inside Routined, where the key card sits beside the jacket, the bag and the door in one sequence.