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

By Marcus Fenley

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.
Here is the uncomfortable part. If nothing in your house becomes real until you have asked four times, your child has not learned to ignore you. He has learned, accurately, that the fourth ask is the start signal and the first three are weather. Years of ordinary, loving reminding quietly install a parent as their child's start button, and then that parent gets furious that the child will not start.

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 itThe five delays that look identical from the kitchen doorway and need opposite responses: absorbed, overwhelmed, negotiation, dread, and flatThe 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 moveScripts and anti-scripts for the hallway, the homework table, and the bedroom nobody has tidiedHow this looks different at five, at nine, and at twelveA 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HFGXVC67
• ISBN13: 9798193061915
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"