In a Minute: How to Raise Child Who Starts Without Being Told, Through the First Move Method

Shoes. Please. We are leaving in four minutes.And from the other room, in a tone of complete reasonableness - In a minute!Nothing happens. You say it again. By the fourth time it is not really a sentence any more, it is a noise with your child's name in the middle of it, and everybody gets in the car and nobody speaks for the first mile. >This book is about uninstalling yourself.Inside you'll learn: - Why this is a starting problem rather than a motivation problem, and why lectures never touch it- The five delays that look identical from the kitchen doorway and need opposite responses: absorbed, overwhelmed, negotiation, dread, and flat- The First Move Method: shrink the first move, say it once, make the finish visible, hand it over, and what to do when they still do not move- Scripts and anti-scripts for the hallway, the homework table, and the bedroom nobody has tidied- How this looks different at five, at nine, and at twelve- A chapter on when it is not a habit problem at all, and what to do then For parents of children aged five to twelve. The resistance is not spread across the task. It is concentrated in the first thirty seconds, and doorways can be made wider.