Habit Systems: design, track and review

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I'm learning "Habit Systems: design, track and review" on The Future Market. Lesson 1: "From one habit to a system (and what the research really says)".

What the lesson teaches:
- Before this course: Show Up Every Day: Habits & Discipline (course 9.1). You should already know cue, routine and result, the "not 21 days" finding, if-then plans, and how to design your surroundings. We build on those and do not repeat them.
- A habit system here means: a few habits placed on stable daily anchors, written as if-then plans, tracked simply, and reviewed on a schedule.
- Honest numbers to keep in mind for the whole course:
- Finding - What it says - Honest limit
- Lally and colleagues (2010), 96 volunteers, 84 days - The median (middle) time to reach the plateau of automaticity was about 66 days; individuals ranged from 18 to an estimated 254 days - About half of participants had not reached a high enough automaticity level by day 84; automaticity was self-reported
- Wood, Quinn and Kashy (2002), diary studies with students - Roughly 35% to 43% of recorded daily behaviours were habits repeated in the same place - Student samples; a rough guide, not a law
- Webb and Sheeran (2006), 47 experimental tests - A medium-to-large change in intention (d = 0.66) led to only a small-to-medium change in behaviour (d = 0.36) - Wanting to change is not enough; this is why plans and tracking matter

The exercise I'm working on:
Make your "honest numbers" card: the five findings in your own words, with one limit for each. Keep it where you plan your habits.

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 "From one habit to a system (and what the research really says)" from the course "Habit Systems: design, track and review".

Here's what the lesson says:
Last time you built one habit, like planting one flower. A system is the whole garden: where each plant goes, when you water it, and when you walk around to check what is growing. Gardeners do not promise every seed will grow, and neither do we. We use real numbers.

The activity:
Make your "honest numbers" card: the five findings in your own words, with one limit for each. Keep it where you plan your habits.

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.