Leading People: feedback, delegation and meetings

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I'm learning "Leading People: feedback, delegation and meetings" on The Future Market. Lesson 1: "What feedback research really says".

What the lesson teaches:
- Feedback can help or hurt. A well-known meta-analysis by Kluger and DeNisi (1996, Psychological Bulletin) found that feedback interventions improved performance on average (d = 0.41, a medium effect), but more than one-third of the interventions made performance worse.
- Their explanation: feedback works best when it keeps attention on the task and how to do it, and worse when it pulls attention to the self (how the person is judged).
- Hattie and Timperley (2007, Review of Educational Research) described four levels of feedback: about the task (right or wrong), the process (how to do it), self-regulation (how the person checks and steers their own work) and the self (praise or blame about the person). Summaries of their work describe personal praise as the least useful for learning. Their work is based on classrooms; workplaces are similar in some ways but not identical.
- In plain words: "Good job, you are so smart" tells someone little. "Your summary put the decision in the first line, so the team could act at once" tells them what to repeat.
- Limits: the studies cover many kinds of tasks and settings, and results differ by person, culture and trust. Use the research as a guide for your own tests, not as a script.

The exercise I'm working on:
Rewrite three real comments (one you gave, one you received, one you wish you had given) so that each is specific, about the work, and ends with a next step.

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 feedback research really says" from the course "Leading People: feedback, delegation and meetings".

Here's what the lesson says:
Feedback is like a mirror and a map. A good one shows you where you are and where to go next. A bad one only tells you that you are good or bad, and can make you feel stuck.

The activity:
Rewrite three real comments (one you gave, one you received, one you wish you had given) so that each is specific, about the work, and ends with a next step.

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.