A week across two homes

The sheet

Your child’s week in colour, made with them and put up at their eye level, with a second page for a holiday. No names or addresses are printed on it.

For the fridge · A4 landscape, two pages · Two pages · PDF, 44 KB

How it helps

After a separation, children often cope better when they can see where they’ll be each day and who will collect them. A week they can read for themselves, at their eye level, answers their questions before they have to ask them, and makes the move between homes easier to predict.

How to use it

1. Agree the dates between the adults first, where you can, and not in front of your child.
2. Make the week with your child: a colour and a drawing for each home, then which home each day, who collects, and what lives where.
3. Put it up at their eye level, and update it yourself on the same day each week. When something changes, change it with them.
4. Use the second page for a holiday, filled in before it begins. Where there are safety concerns about contact, keep addresses and details off the sheet, and don’t post photographs of it.

How to get this sheet

This sheet comes with a subscription. It is also yours with its chapter, if that is the chapter you read free, or if a teacher or therapist sends it to you. School staff and therapists signed in to their shelf can print it too.

It goes with When Parents Separate.

Free to print

These are free to anyone, with nothing to sign up for.

• A plan for a bad dayTo fill in together · A4
• Before you ring the schoolFor a call or a meeting · A4
• What to say: school and friendsCards to cut out · A4, eight cards to cut
• Before the SENCo meetingFor a meeting · A4
• Three reports, side by sideFor a meeting · A4 landscape
• The return-to-school meetingFor a meeting · A4
• The move to secondary school, for a parents’ eveningFor a parents’ evening · A4, five pages
• The last half-hour before bedFor the fridge · A4
• The worry ladderTo fill in together · A4
• Before you see the GP about your childFor an appointment · A4, two sides
• A record of what happenedFor a call or a meeting · A4, two pages
• The people I can tellTo make together · A4, two pages

Every sheet, marked free or with a subscription, is at theparentbook.com/printables.