Raising Kids Around AI: A Parent's Playbook for Homework, Screens and Chatbot Friends

A Parent's Playbook for Homework, Screens and Chatbot Friends
By Cara Denning

Your eleven-year-old gets a better fractions lesson from the tablet than you managed at the table. Your fifteen-year-old's essay comes back from a chatbot in nine seconds, flawless and hollow. And every post in your feed says AI will either ruin childhood or save it.

This is the playbook for the ordinary decisions you are already making: what to allow, at what age, with what rules, and how to talk about it without the eye roll.

Inside, you'll learn:

• Age-by-age guidance from under 8 to 16 and up
• Homework: the walk-through question, tutor mode and the invented-source trap
• Raising a kid who checks: the three habits and the real-or-AI dinner game
• Privacy, the family safe word and what never goes in a chatbot
• Deepfakes and sextortion: the talk, the four-line script and exactly where to report
• AI companion apps: what they are built to do and the signs to watch for
• The good stuff: tutors, creative projects and support for different brains
• A one-page family AI agreement, a fridge sheet and 52 prompts for parents and kids

You are more ready for this than you feel.

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