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Your kid is already using AI. Here's the longer version.

The honest version of what's going on: what these tools actually do, what your kid is probably already doing with them, and the questions worth asking their school.

The short version

You can't supervise what you don't understand.

Your kid is already using AI, for homework, for questions they'd never ask you, and probably for things you haven't thought about. This page gets you the actual mental model: what these tools do, where they lie, and what a house rule looks like when it survives a real teenager.

The mental model

Five things worth understanding.

What these things actually are

Plain English that explains every strange thing you've watched AI do, including why it invents facts with total confidence.

What your kids are really doing

The honest map of teen AI use: homework, social life, and the AI companions nobody warned you about.

Brilliant, then wrong

Every AI tool is confidently wrong some of the time. The fix is a habit: check anything that matters before you trust it.

House rules that hold

Five rules that work in a real family, plus the conversation openers that get an honest answer instead of a shrug.

Questions worth asking

Not just at home. The questions worth asking your child's school matter just as much.

What you need

Nothing you don't already have.

To use this pack

Ten minutes, and a willingness to try a couple of things with your kid instead of just reading about them
No tech background. If you can use email, you're the target audience
The Parent's AI Cheat Sheet for the printable, fridge-friendly version

For your kid

Any AI tool they already use is fine to start with. You don't need to buy or install anything
The house rules on this page work whatever age your kids are, we flag what changes by age

Straight answers

What other parents actually ask.

Is this trying to sell me something?

No. This page and the cheat sheet are free to read, there's nothing to buy here. If you'd like your school to run something like this for its parent community, there's a way to ask below.

My kid is 8. My kid is 17. Does this apply to both?

Yes to both. The tools and the thinking are the same, what changes by age is how much independence you give them.

Where do I go from here?

Take the questions worth asking your child's school, or ask your school to run its own parent information evening, below.

Want more for your school?

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If you think other parents at your school would find this useful, we run 60 to 90 minute information evenings for school communities. The school books it, we deliver it.

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