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Routine guide

A visual checklist children can actually use

Pictures, one step at a time, and progress they can see. Free for one child, with twenty routines to start from.

A paper chart on the fridge works right up until somebody has to point at it. A checklist the child holds, that shows one step and then the next, is the difference between a chart you manage and a routine they run.

What actually helps

  • Use pictures on every step for a child who cannot read yet. Most five-year-olds run a routine from the icons alone.
  • Keep step names short. Two or three words fits on the screen at the size that matters.
  • Show progress as a count, not a score. "Four of six" is information; a percentage feels like marking.
  • Never remove points for a missed day. Nothing in Flowly does, on purpose.

Is it free?

For one child and three routines, yes, permanently and with no card. Family removes the limits and adds the history and the suggestions, and there is a trial for it whenever you want one.

The routine

๐ŸŒค๏ธ Weekend morning

  1. Out of bed when you are ready 2 min
  2. Toilet and wash 5 min
  3. Get dressed 8 min
  4. Breakfast 20 min
  5. Brush teeth 2 min
  6. Tidy your bed 3 min
Use this routine

Free for one child and three routines. You can change every step.

Your child sees one step at a time

Not the whole list. The step they are on, big and clear, with the next one quiet underneath, and a count of what is already done. That is the entire child experience, and it is why it works when a chart on the fridge stops working.

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Get dressed

about 8 min

Other routines

Picture routine cards for children Three card sequences that hold in most houses: seven for the morning, five for after school, eight for bedtime. Plus one rule for the card that gets skipped. Sticker charts and what replaces them The chart is not a trick and it is not a failure. It does one job well and then it stops, and what goes up in its place matters more than what came down. Weekly plan for kids One job a weekday, sized to the child, on a week with an empty day in it on purpose. Morning routine for kids Seven steps from waking up to out of the door, small enough to start and clear enough that nobody has to be told what comes next.

Flowly supports routines and organisation. It is not a medical, diagnostic or therapy product, it does not assess anybody, and no diagnosis is ever asked for.