Saturday and Sunday morning
The weekend morning has no alarm clock and no school times, which is nice but makes the day harder to orient in. A picture shows the calmer rhythm and what still applies. See how the support works below.
♀Saturday and Sunday morning
A person relaxes on a couch with a warm drink, with SAT and SUN calendars and a sun.
About this visual support
A free weekend morning is a relief, but it can also be confusing for a child used to the weekday's clear structure. Suddenly there is no alarm clock, no school to reach and no given order for what should happen. The absence of demands is nice, but the lack of anchors can make the child restless or unsure of what they are allowed to do.
Visual support gives the weekend morning a looser but still visible shape. When the child sees that the morning is calm, that you might eat breakfast in pyjamas and that the day is free but has some fixed points, the freedom becomes manageable rather than boundless. A picture can show that it is okay to be slow while also signalling that some things, like breakfast, still belong.
A tip: let the weekend morning have its own simple routine, separate from the weekday one, so the child knows the rules are different but not absent. There is security even in a calm structure. In the Routined app you can build a special weekend morning with fewer and looser steps, so the free feeling gets a shape to rest in.
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