You have the right to ask your school what AI tools your child is using, how their data is protected, and whether you can opt out. Here are the questions to ask and what to do with the answers.
AI is reshaping what teenagers see, how they compare themselves, and who they talk to when they're struggling. The research is still catching up. Here's what we know now.
The conversation about AI is different for a seven-year-old, a twelve-year-old, and a seventeen-year-old. Here's what matters at each stage: the risks to emphasize, the tools to know about, and how to pitch the conversation.
For students with dyslexia, ADHD, autism, and other learning differences, AI tools can be genuinely transformative, not as a shortcut but as a way to access learning that was previously harder to reach. Here's what parents need to know.
When your child uses AI to create an image, write a story, or compose music, who owns the result? What can they share or publish? And what should schools be telling students about AI and creative work?
AI can now clone voices from a short audio clip. Scammers are using this to impersonate children in distress and convince grandparents to wire money. Here's what these scams look like and how to protect your family.
Before your child ever opens ChatGPT, they've already been shaped by AI: in their TikTok feed, their Snapchat filters, their game recommendations, and the autocomplete on their phone. Here's what that actually means.
There's a habit I've used for twenty years to learn hard things at work: solve it by hand, write down how, script the parts that repeat, and only automate once I truly understand it. It turns out that same order, do the work first and hand it off last, lines up with a lot of what we know about how durable understanding forms, and with the kind of thinking AI makes it dangerously easy to skip.…
"Is AI cheating?" is the wrong question. The right question is what your child's specific school expects for each specific assignment — and how to find out before something goes wrong.
Apps like Character.ai are designed to feel like relationships. For some children, that's genuinely useful. For others, it becomes a problem. Here's what parents need to know.
You keep hearing that "AI can build software now." That's true, and it's also more complicated than the headline. So I asked Claude to build a real, working tool — a photo-blur scanner — and it did. I didn't write a line of it. I kept every prompt, then had Claude analyze its own build. Here's the whole thing: the prompts I typed, the decisions I made, the night it quietly accomplished nothing,…
Post 9 covered what to do if your child is a victim of deepfakes. This post covers the harder conversation — what to do if your child is the one creating them.
Twelve posts. Twelve weeks of practical AI guidance for parents. Here's what the series covered, the challenges it raised, and the through-lines that connect it all.
AI changes fast. This final post gives you five resources to bookmark so you can stay current without spending more time on it than you have.
After ten posts building your own understanding of AI, you're ready to have the family conversation. Here's how to write an agreement your children will actually follow.
AI produces the most common answer, not the most accurate one — and "most common" reflects whose voices dominated its training data. Here's how to recognize bias and teach your children to do the same.
Deepfakes — AI-generated fake images, video, and audio — are already being used to harm people. Here's what parents need to understand, and what to do if something goes wrong.
AI's accessibility features aren't just for students. Here are four concrete ways AI can help parents with translation, summarization, planning, and drafting.
The school version of Copilot and the home version share a name but operate under very different rules. Here's what VSB parents need to know.
AI is genuinely useful for learning tasks: summarizing documents, explaining concepts, and generating questions. Here are three concrete things to try this week.
AI mistakes look identical to correct answers. This post gives you a simple routine for catching errors — one you can use yourself and teach to your children.
Before you spend much time with AI tools, there's one thing you need to understand: what you type doesn't always stay private. Here's what to know and what to check.
A plain-language guide to the five AI tools your children are most likely to encounter — what each one does, who made it, and which one to try first.
A Parent's Guide to AI was written for BC. Most of it applies across Canada — but school policies, privacy laws, and local resources vary by province. Here's a practical roadmap for building a version specific to where you live.
AI works like a very sophisticated autocomplete — it predicts words, it doesn't think. Understanding this changes how you respond when your child brings home AI-assisted work.
The best way to guide your children through the AI era is to try these tools yourself first. Here's how to get started in five minutes.
Introducing A Parent's Guide to Artificial Intelligence — a free, plain-language resource for BC parents navigating AI in schools and at home.