1. She said: “Parents ruin discipline at 7 a.m., not in the classroom.” The habit is choosing everything for the child in the first hour of the day — clothes, breakfast, schedule, pace. When a child starts the day with zero decisions, the brain slips into passive mode, and teachers spend the rest of the day trying to activate a system that began shut down. 2. She showed me data from her class: the children who selected even one thing in the morning — outfit, snack, or task order — had 40–60% few