Pick up from nursery
Pick up looks calm from the outside, but inside the child is full of impressions, still half in the game and almost out of fuel. The visual support below makes the whole path from playroom to car seat visible.
♂Preschool pick-up
An adult picking up a child from preschool, with a bus and a house in the background.
About this visual support
At four in the afternoon a child stands with arms full of the day and has to switch gears in the middle of a game. Knowing they are going home is not the hard part, it is the turn from play to goodbye, from friend to parent, from floor to coat that costs the most when the tank is already empty.
When the transition is shown as a sequence of pictures, the child no longer has to carry themselves through a stream of spoken instructions. End the game, put one thing away, jacket, shoes, goodbye to a friend, hand in hand to the car. The way home becomes a path you can walk step by step instead of negotiating each move.
A concrete tip: always start with the same first image, the jacket for example, so it works as a starting signal that costs less energy than words. In Routined you can stitch the afternoon together from pick up to dinner and try the app free for fourteen days.