Managing changes to routines during and after the holidays

Joan Medlen's recent blog, The Ultimate Routine-Killer: Winter Break, about managing the lack of routine that happens during the northern hemisphere winter school break will ring bells for many families in Australia where the festive season comes at the beginning of an often much longer summer break, followed by some major transitions. 

Joan provides practial strategies for managing one-off events, and an example of a visual  way of helping someone with an intellectual disability and communication impairment to prepare for breaks in routine and the big change to a new school environment, or the transition to post-school life.  Easily adaptable to other situations - as she says, an additional task now that could save time and frustration in the weeks to come. Maybe enlist the help of siblings who might be at a loose end in the holidays?