Check the calendar

#calendar#planning#date#weekly schedule#day plan

A week does not exist anywhere until someone draws it. With the visual support below the days become something a child can walk up to and look at, and whatever happens on Thursday stops being a rumour.

A girl points to a day marked with a yellow ring on a wall calendar.

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Pointing at the calendar

A girl points to a day marked with a yellow ring on a wall calendar.

About this visual support

What is happening tomorrow is a hard question for a child with no inner picture of a week. Time without a shape cannot be prepared for, which is why every mention of swimming, the dentist or a visit lands as last minute news, however many times it has already been said before.

Checking the calendar is the act that gives time a shape. A card for the calendar, one for today and one for whatever is written in turns the moment into a habit with a beginning and an end, rather than a question you answer on demand. Something concrete to try: let the child point at today before you look ahead at all. Now is the only point a child is certain of, and everything else is easier to place once there is a here to count from.

Routined can show the events of the day and the week as pictures in the same place as the routines, and the app can be tried for fourteen days at no cost.