Get school clothes
Choosing clothes lands at the hour when a brain has least to give, and the same decision still has to hold the weather, the opinions of classmates and yesterday's favourite jumper. The pictures below make the choice smaller and the morning shorter.
♀Get school clothes
A girl holds up a blue t-shirt and a pair of trousers for the school day.
About this visual support
Morning offers the worst possible conditions for a decision with this many variables. The clothes have to suit the weather, feel right against the skin and survive meeting the class, and it all has to be settled with ten minutes left and breakfast half eaten. No wonder the choice stalls, or ends in a top that has been in the laundry basket for three days.
Visual support moves the decision away from the morning. With cards for trousers, top, socks and outer layer, you can lay out the day's set the evening before, and the morning becomes a matter of following the row rather than choosing. Tie one card to the weather: a few pictures for rain, cold and heat turn the argument about the coat into a conversation about the picture instead of your judgement. Let a child choose between two ready sets rather than freely from the wardrobe, so the freedom stays while the number of options does not grow.
Routined can hold the same order digitally, with pictures, ticks and a time to work towards. The pictures here download free, and the app has a 14 day trial.
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