How do you prevent a breakdown caused by a change in routine

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Question is in the title.

And the answer is in the fact that you've got the intelligence to ask, which means you have the cognitive keys to controlling what at first seems to be an out of control situation. The wonderful thing about routine is that it creates a secure environment. For me the key to feeling that sense of secure control is to remind myself to build in a certain amount of uncertainty (because it's going to happen anyway). The trick is to not permit the lapse in a system affect you emotionally (and trigger a meltdown)...when things go awry - step back and see what is actually happening...not how do I feel about it...but what is actually going on. Make sure that things are functionally 'safe enough' and then go forward.

Great question that I have not mastered. Little things like keeping in mind schedules need to be flexible are important. However when expectations that things happen a certain way (classroom routines) are broken, it is not anticipated, and I rely on the continuity and predictability of the routine, well then, try to escape to meltdown privately.