What if my kid loses interest halfway through?

They will, somewhere around week five or six, and the kit is built on the assumption that it happens rather than the hope that it does not.

It is worth knowing why, because it is not what most parents guess. The work did not get too hard. It stopped being new. The first customer was exciting and the fourth one is just Saturday, and running on excitement works right up until the excitement runs out.

That week is in the book. The chapter where the schedule falls apart and the whole thing stops being fun lands right when your kid is living it, which means they read about somebody else feeling exactly what they are feeling in the same week. That is deliberate and it does most of the work.

There is also a live call for kids and parents timed to land in that window, and the most useful hour in it is a kid hearing four other kids say they wanted to quit too. That lesson does not land the same way from a parent or a book.

Your side of it, briefly. Do not let them quit on a bad day, because nobody decides well at the end of a rough Saturday. Do not take over, however strong the pull. And separate two sentences that sound identical coming from a twelve year old: I do not want to do this today, and I do not want to do this. Usually it is the first, and the first just needs a break.

If it turns out to be genuinely over, that is allowed and it is not a failure. They will have done the thing most adults never do, which is start. The book is still there next year.

Worth saying plainly: nothing in a box creates the want. If your kid is not interested before it arrives, this will not manufacture that, and it will feel like an assignment somebody else set for them.