For Parents & Families
Conversations to have at the kitchen table.
AI is in your child's classroom, on their phone, behind their homework. The path below is a way to talk about it that doesn't require you to be a philosopher.
Most parenting around AI happens reactively — after a homework incident, after a confusing conversation, after something on the news. This path runs the other way: a discussion habit you build before you need it. Start with the toolkit. Then read one story together. Then keep going.
Step 1 — Open the Dialogue Toolkit first
Five Socratic moves and sentence stems that turn any story into a real conversation. You don't have to be an expert — you have to ask the question, then listen. The toolkit shows you how.
Open the toolkitStep 2 — Read one story together this week
Pick the grade band that matches your child. K-5 has short read-aloud scenarios. 6-8 has story-based dilemmas. 9-12 has the philosophical canon. Read it together — they'll surprise you with what they notice.
Open the K-5 storiesStep 3 — Use the Decision Journal
After the conversation, jot down what your kid said. The journal lives only on your device — nothing is sent anywhere. Comes in handy six months later when you want to remember how their thinking has shifted.
Open the journalStep 4 — For your own reading, when you want more
The Consciousness Line is a longer essay about what it means to say something has a mind. Useful before a conversation that's gone deeper than you expected.
Read the essayStep 5 — When AI homework comes up
The Authorship Quandary walks the conversation about whose work it is when a kid uses AI. Worth reading before the next homework dispute — not after.
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