AI for Parents for raising kids in the AI age

On learning AI to win in your career and be present as a parent.

Founder of the Build First AI learning lab and maker of kid-friendly AI apps like Scribblins and MuseKat. Writes about building with AI and parents and kids creating together.

Practical guides and a community for moms who want to learn AI, build with it, and shape its future.

Carrol Chang, CEO of Andela and a mom of three, on the agents she built for sports logistics, school email, and meals. She still checks their work, and says the weekly admin dropped from about five to eight hours to about two.

Eight prompts you can paste into the free version of ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini for meals, money, school email, and a homework tutor that asks instead of answering.

A parent-and-teacher look at ChatGPT, Gemini, and Khanmigo for homework, plus a family rule: AI explains, and your child still does the work.

Start with tonight’s homework. One prompt coaches you to ask a single short question and keep the answer with your child.

A prompt for a weekly AI digest you can read in about five minutes, including a line for schools, kids’ apps, and safety.

What shifted this fall in schools, safety, and kid-facing products, including Gemini in Classroom being on unless the school turns it off. It also shares questions to ask your district.

Families using bots and agents for school handouts, schedules, and the rest of the household admin, and the risks that come with giving those tools access.

Ten prompts for the busy week: a ride grid, dinners that fit the nights you have, school emails, a fairer chore split, and a Sunday check-in.

What you can and can’t control in ChatGPT and Gemini when kids use them for homework, including how to turn Gemini off for a child under 13 in Family Link.

A ChatGPT audit of who actually carries the household, and a fix: give one shared task a single owner and a deadline.

Emily Oster on talking with teens about how they use ChatGPT before you reach for rules, and why letting it answer every homework question gets in the way of learning.

One instructions file, set up on a Saturday morning, that turns your child’s current unit into a one-page printable for the next school day. It runs on a paid Claude plan and the desktop app.

Paste a school email or a photo of a sports schedule into free ChatGPT or Gemini, then import the events onto a separate kids’ activities calendar.

AI agents you can text, including ones built for family calendars, school email, sports, and meals, and what each one asks to connect to.

A practical lesson from research with 8- and 9-year-olds: ask whether a video could really happen, then look for tells like odd anatomy, lighting, and a voice that doesn’t match the mouth.

Women use AI less than men and do more of the cognitive work at home. The new family-assistant apps promise to bridge both divides.

A homeschool mom shows six ways she uses ChatGPT and Claude as an assistant, not the teacher, from field trips and worksheets to a printed term planner.

Two parents who use AI all day on what they will hand their kids and what they won’t, including the creative middle they don’t want a child to skip.

Live sessions and click-by-click guides for running a household, from three parents in New York. There’s a free virtual AI 101 every month, plus a free virtual 201 on building systems and a 301 on putting AI to work.