Show Up Every Day: Habits & Discipline

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I'm learning "Show Up Every Day: Habits & Discipline" on The Future Market. Lesson 1: "What a habit really is".

What the lesson teaches:
- In psychology, a habit is a behaviour that has become automatic because it was repeated many times in the same situation (the same place, time or trigger).
- A habit has three parts that are easy to remember: cue (what reminds you), routine (what you do), and result (what you get).
- In diary studies with university students, researchers Wendy Wood, Jeffrey Quinn and Deborah Kashy (2002) found that a large share of daily actions were habits repeated almost daily in the same place. One of their two studies put the figure at about 43% of recorded behaviours (the other at about 35%). These were student samples, so treat the number as a rough guide, not a law.
- Why it matters: when an action becomes a habit, you rely less on motivation and willpower to do it.

The exercise I'm working on:
List five things you do every day without thinking (for example, checking your phone after waking up). For each one, write the cue, the routine and the result.

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 "What a habit really is" from the course "Show Up Every Day: Habits & Discipline".

Here's what the lesson says:
A habit is something you do without having to think hard, like brushing your teeth after breakfast. Your brain learns "when this happens, I do that," so it gets easier every time.

The activity:
List five things you do every day without thinking (for example, checking your phone after waking up). For each one, write the cue, the routine and the result.

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.