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Your Child May Not Use ChatGPT, But They Are Still Growing Up With AI
Parents do not need to become AI experts overnight, but we do need to start changing the conversation.
Let Them Be Little: Beauty Trends, Social Media, and Childhood
Now we have new terms entering the world that parents need to understand. Two of them are “Sephora kids” and “cosmeticorexia.”
Attention Residue: Are We Raising Kids Who Never Fully Focus?
I think kids are growing up practicing divided attention almost constantly. They are learning inside environments where it feels normal to bounce between five things at once. Even boredom rarely lasts more than a few seconds before a device fills the silence. The concern is not simply that kids are distracted. The concern is that sustained focus may slowly start feeling unnatural to them.
When the Chatbot Sounds Like a Professional: AI, Trust, and Abstraction Drift
Recently, TechCrunch reported that Pennsylvania filed a lawsuit against Character.AI after a chatbot allegedly posed as a doctor.
Cognitive Offloading: Are Kids Handing Their Thinking Over to Technology?
“Just Google it” has quickly become “just ask AI.” The concern is not that kids are using tools. The concern is that they may be handing over important thinking skills before those skills have had time to develop.
How AI Will Affect Your Job and Your Kids’ Future
This week, I was reading an article about a study on which jobs are likely to be affected the most and the least by AI. I encourage people to pay attention to that kind of information. Not because every prediction will be perfect, but because the overall direction is becoming clearer.