Get dressed and brush hair
Clothes against the skin are sensory load enough for one morning. Add a brush at the scalp and a child may decide both are unbearable at once. The visual support below separates them so neither steals the other.
♀Brush hair
A person brushes their curly hair with a purple hairbrush.
About this visual support
Two sensations at once are not twice as hard, they are exponentially harder. A jumper collar against the neck combined with a brush pulling on a tangle is enough for many children to freeze and refuse both. Handling them after each other, not in parallel, is often the whole difference.
Visual support lets you show exactly that. First clothes, all the way done, then hair. Or the other way around if hair is the lighter task in your home. When a child sees that only one thing happens at a time, there is breathing space in between. The brush is no longer a threat sitting in the corner while the jumper goes over the head.
One tip that often helps: place a small pause card between clothes and hair – a glass of water, a moment at the window, whatever fits. The little reset means the brush meets a child who is not already at the edge. The whole morning sequence can be saved in the Routined app, with a 14-day trial.