Before school
It looks sunny. The grown-up says take a coat. You do not want to carry it.
What do you do?
Step 1: What Would You Do?
There is often more than one good answer. Pick one and see what happens.
At a friend’s house
You are building a tall tower. Your friend wants to add one more block on top. It is already wobbling.
What do you say?
Step 2: What That Was
The name for what you just worked out.
When you do something, something happens after. That is the result.
Some results wait
Eating all the sweets feels good now. The tummy ache comes later.
You can guess first
Before you pick, guess what comes after. Then pick.
Step 3: Try It
These ones do have right answers.
What Comes After?
Tap a choice, then tap what happens next.
Match each choice to what happens after it.
Tap a card on the left to start.
Step 4: Quick Check
Two questions, then you are done.
Question 1 of 1
You want to guess what happens next. When is the best time?
Step 5: Your Life Mission
Something to do away from the screen. Nobody is checking.
Guess before
- Pick one thing you are about to do today.
- Say your guess about what happens next.
- Afterwards, check. Were you right?
Why: Checking your guess is how guesses get better.
For a grown-up: Let the wrong guesses stand without correction where they are harmless. Being wrong and noticing it is the whole exercise.
Step 6: What You Learned
- Every choice has something after it.
- Guess what comes next before you pick.
For the grown-up
The hard part at this age is not that results exist, but that delayed results feel unreal. A tummy ache in an hour is, to a five-year-old, nearly fictional. Naming the delay explicitly — "that one comes later" — helps more than repeating the warning.
Natural consequences teach this far better than imposed ones, where they are safe. A wet coat teaches the coat lesson; being told off about the coat teaches a different lesson about you.
Avoid using this to win arguments. If "what happens next?" only ever appears when you want a different answer, it becomes a warning noise rather than a thinking tool.