Just had an idea to use colour as a way of  helping M to identify what  time of day it is.  She generally wears blue joggers in the day.  Her P J pants are pink.  So I am going to use colour to help her remember if it is day or night.

It’s now 8.30 pm and we have both put on our P J pants.  I have used the excuse that if we fall asleep downstairs we can wake up, climb the stairs, and just fall into bed without changing our clothes.  I think it could be an approach that works as a prompt to remind M when bed time is near.  Even if she dozes off downstairs her trousers might just fill in a missing building block in her memory.

I will try with this for a few days and see how it goes.  More on this theme later ……