The exact moment 'you'll do great' got heavy.
When did cheering help you? Write it.
Everyone gets the same subject. What differs is the follow-up: one question for children, two for teens, three for adults. Only the children's wording is simplified.
Delete every line anyone could have written. What is left is yours.
Pick one. A single idea taken all the way beats ten touched lightly.
Cut every “well, but”. The sentence stands up straight without them.
Stopping early is the hardest and the most readable.
One word that needs a dictionary is where reading stops.
Not 'it was decided' but 'I decided'. Leave out the doer and the writing hides.