Morning drink
Between waking up and getting going lies a gap where nothing happens on its own. A drink is one of the smallest actions that still counts, and it takes almost no energy. The pictures below turn it into a clear first point in the morning.
♂Morning drink
An adult sits at a small table drinking from a steaming mug, with a clock on the table and a sun.
♂Drink at sunrise
A person holds a steaming mug in front of a sunrise over hills.
♀Morning drink in the mug
A person holds a mug with a sun on it in both hands.
♀A warm drink in the morning
A person holds a steaming mug with both hands with a sun above.
About this visual support
Getting started works best when the first step is small. A child expected to go straight from bed to getting dressed meets a threshold that is often too high, while the same child can drink a glass of water without it feeling like a task. After that the body has already begun, and the next step becomes smaller than it would have been.
Visual support makes that order visible. One picture for the drink first and one for the next step gives the morning a staircase instead of a jump. For many families it is precisely that first picture which decides how the rest of the routine goes.
A concrete tip is to put the glass out the evening before, ideally in the same place every time. What is already there requires no decision in the morning. In Routined the morning can begin with one small step to tick off, and the app can be tried for fourteen days at no cost.
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