Remote Collaboration: tools and async habits

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I'm learning "Remote Collaboration: tools and async habits" on The Future Market. Lesson 1: "Async first, live when it helps".

What the lesson teaches:
- Before this course: Remote Work Skills (course 8.6). You should already have a workspace, a daily plan with focus blocks, clear messages (bottom line up front, who does what by when), safe accounts and a basic knowledge of your local rules on disconnecting from work (in Ontario, a written policy about disconnecting from work). We build on that and do not repeat it.
- Synchronous (live): people communicate at the same moment, such as a call. Asynchronous (async): the sender does not expect an immediate reply, such as a document comment, email or recorded update.
- Async works well for updates, feedback on a draft, routine questions and decisions that need thinking time. Live works better for sensitive topics, a tangled disagreement, brainstorming or building trust in the first weeks.
- A simple rule: start in writing. If it takes more than two back-and-forth messages without progress, switch to a short call, then write the result down.
- Agree response times by channel with your team. Example: chat within 4 working hours, email within 1 working day, a task comment within 2 working days. Mark real emergencies with a separate, agreed route.
- A good async update answers three things: what is done, what is next, and what is blocked or needs a decision (with who and by when).
- A good decision post has: the question, the options, the recommendation, who decides and the deadline. People who cannot attend can still take part.

The exercise I'm working on:
Write your team's response-time table and send one async update and one decision post this week. Note what questions people still asked, and improve the next one. ---

I'm stuck. Please:
1. Explain the main idea in plain, simple words with one everyday example.
2. Walk me through the exercise one small step at a time. Ask me what I've done so far before giving the next step.
3. Don't just give me the final answer. Help me do it myself, and check my work when I share it.

I'm a parent helping my child (about 8 years old) with a lesson called "Async first, live when it helps" from the course "Remote Collaboration: tools and async habits".

Here's what the lesson says:
Some questions are like leaving a note on the fridge: whoever comes by next can read it and answer. Others are like a fire alarm and need people to talk right now. Good remote teams choose the note most of the time.

The activity:
Write your team's response-time table and send one async update and one decision post this week. Note what questions people still asked, and improve the next one. ---

Please explain this so an 8-year-old understands: short sentences, a fun everyday example, and no hard words.
Then give me 3 simple questions I can ask my child to check they understood, and a way to do the activity together, one tiny step at a time.