Routines

A flexible wake-to-door framework for households where the same four things get forgotten and the last five minutes always turn sharp.

Ages 5-13, and any household running more than one child out of the same front door.

For the child who is capable, willing and still somehow sitting on the stairs with one sock on when you need to leave.

Ages 6–14. ADHD, executive-function differences, or any child who stalls between tasks.

For households where the alarm goes off four times, the shower takes twenty minutes and the whole thing ends in a slammed door.

Ages 13-18, including teens who have started missing first period.

Coats, shoes, keys, someone crying, someone shouting — a sequence that keeps the exit from undoing the whole morning.

Any age, including families with a mix of ages. Especially useful with under-tens.

A protected hour that lets a depleted child come back into the family before anything is asked of them.

Ages 5–16. Particularly children who are described as 'fine at school'.

A structure for the hinge between downtime and work, for children who can do the task but cannot begin it.

Ages 7–16, including children who avoid, stall or catastrophise about schoolwork.

A landing routine built around hunger, movement and depleted self-regulation, for children who spend the school day working harder than anyone can see.

Ages 6-15 with ADHD, or any child who unravels within ten minutes of getting home.

A repeatable ending for game, phone and tablet time that does not require an argument to enforce.

Ages 6–17. Any household where the device is fine until it has to stop.

A short handover from four separate activities into one shared meal, without expecting dinner to become a nightly connection ritual.

Any household eating together at least some evenings, including split and staggered schedules.

A staged reduction in noise, light and expectation across the last hour of the evening, built for households with more than one child in them.

Households with children roughly 4-13, including mixed ages sharing one wind-down.

For adolescents juggling schoolwork, devices, downtime and sleep, where the whole evening quietly disappears and nothing gets finished.

Ages 13-18, including teens in exam years.

A plain bedtime sequence for families whose evenings have grown into a forty-minute production, or who have no sequence at all.

Ages 3-11, and any household where bedtime has become elaborate or unpredictable.

An evening structure that gives worry somewhere earlier to go, so bedtime stops being the only place it can land.

Ages 5–14. Night-time fears, worry about school, reluctance to be alone.

For the child whose stomach hurts on Sunday evening, and the household that has learned to brace for it.

Ages 7–17. School worry, transition anxiety, or a hard term.

For families whose weekends either vanish into admin and activities or dissolve into screens and low-level bickering.

Any household, especially those with several children and competing weekend commitments.