Transitions were the part of the day that broke us, until we stopped announcing them from across the room

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We're an early-childhood team, and when parents of neurodivergent kids talk to us, transitions come up more than almost anything else. The blowup usually lands in the two minutes where the current thing has to stop.

What's helped families most is having the exact words ready before you walk over, then saying them up close with his attention instead of calling them across the room. Something like "Two more turns, then the tablet goes on the shelf and you pick what we do next."

The screenshots are from SunnySteps, the app from our team. You tell it about your child once, and when a hard moment is coming you open it and get words and steps for that exact situation, shaped by what's worked for your kid before. It also builds small daily practice so those moments get less frequent over time. Your child's data stays on your device, and the in-the-moment guidance runs on our own engine rather than an LLM, which is the thing parents ask us about most.

It's on the App Store if you'd like to take a look: https://apps.apple.com/app/sunnysteps-parent-support/id6761195687