mommyatty, sweetptater, Similar here. Although they get syrup and whatnot on their food. If it is a spill where they are drenched then we change them, otherwise just wipe up small spills. They get dirty at school and daycare and spill things on themselves there.
mommyatty , sweetptater , Similar here. Although they get syrup and whatnot on their food. If it is a spill where they are drenched then we change them, otherwise just wipe up small spills. They get dirty at school and daycare and spill things on themselves there.
mommyatty, DD 6.5 still uses some sippy cup style cups. She has a thermos style without the stopper by her bed and has a couple different stray style ones she uses at gymnastics practice. She finds them easier to drink out of than the big open mouth water bottles.
FFC I will still put the Tupperware sippy lid on cups of OJ if I am taking OJ or juice with me on an early morning drive and drink from them to avoid spilling. I loathe putting anything but water in my camelback style bottles.
Post by freezorburn on Jan 30, 2018 16:32:21 GMT -5
I may have missed this, but how do you use the visual chart? Is it there for reference? Or do the kids have a way to actively track where they are in the routine?
Examples: move a small magnet on top of the current step. Or laminate it and cross off with a dry erase pen. We did a checklist style routine, DS lives checking off each step
I was totally in the same boat as you until I threw up my hands this weekend and said we had to do something, I was starting every morning by yelling or crying and so was DS and we were getting to work/school so late every day. DS is super competitive and likes to win and he likes to play games, so I turned our morning routine into a game. He is also all into space so I made it a moon game. He has to move his astronaut around the moon stopping at and completing each step prior to the timer going off. If he makes it to his rocket then he gets a mini donut in the car on the way to school. If he doesn't make it then his astronaut is stranded on the moon and the TV remote doesn't work with a stranded astronaut (so he lost all TV for the evening). It's worked great for us. Now when he is dilly dallying or not doing what he is supposed to do instead of moving him, yelling at him, or reminding him again I just say "what is your astronaut doing?" or "don't strand your astronaut" and it turns his attitude right around. Yesterday he had only 38 seconds left on his timer. Today he had 7 minutes and 57 seconds left!
I may have missed this, but how do you use the visual chart? Is it there for reference? Or do the kids have a way to actively track where they are in the routine?
Examples: move a small magnet on top of the current step. Or laminate it and cross off with a dry erase pen. We did a checklist style routine, DS lives checking off each step
Looks like little Velcro tabs at each station and you move the little astronaut around the moon to each step.
I may have missed this, but how do you use the visual chart? Is it there for reference? Or do the kids have a way to actively track where they are in the routine?
Examples: move a small magnet on top of the current step. Or laminate it and cross off with a dry erase pen. We did a checklist style routine, DS lives checking off each step
Mine is just laminated so that in theory they can check stuff off. But they don't.
I may have missed this, but how do you use the visual chart? Is it there for reference? Or do the kids have a way to actively track where they are in the routine?
Examples: move a small magnet on top of the current step. Or laminate it and cross off with a dry erase pen. We did a checklist style routine, DS lives checking off each step
Looks like little Velcro tabs at each station and you move the little astronaut around the moon to each step.
Yes ours is velcro dots and the astronaut moves around the moon. It's a great visual cue as well as physical since he actually has to move it. He also lugs the whole moon down the stairs with him to complete the steps down there, and then he lugs it upstairs at bedtime which is a great time to discuss how our morning is going to go.