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A Parent's Complete Guide to AI: Everything You Need to Know About Safety, Educating, and Preparing Kids for an AI World
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ISBN13: 9798171483913
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Your child didn't choose to grow up in the first generation for whom AI is simply part of the furniture - built into their search engine, word processor, phone keyboard, and classroom before they were old enough to remember a world without it. You didn't grow up with this, and most parenting advice hasn't caught up to it either. The Complete Parent's Guide to AI is the comprehensive, no-nonsense resource for parents of kids ages 11 to 18 who want real answers - not blanket reassurance that everything's fine, and not blanket panic that their child is one prompt away from disaster. Written for busy, capable parents (not technologists), this book gives you exactly what you need to guide your child through an AI-saturated world with clarity and confidence.
Across six parts and twenty-five chapters, you'll get: THE FOUNDATION - A plain-language explanation of how AI actually generates an answer, what AI literacy really means for a kid, and why your own hands-on experience with these tools matters more than any rule you set.
THE FULL RISK LANDSCAPE - The most thorough treatment of AI risk available for parents, covering privacy and data collection, hallucinations and false information, algorithmic bias, over-reliance and skill atrophy, the real line between cheating and legitimate AI assistance, digital reputation, emotional over-attachment to chatbots, and predatory manipulation. Every risk chapter pairs the problem with something concrete you can actually do about it.
THE REAL OPPORTUNITY - How AI can genuinely accelerate your child's learning as a patient tutor, a partner for overcoming writer's block, a tool for building executive function, and a collaborator in creative work - when it's used as a thinking partner instead of a thinking replacement.
SCHOOL AND THE WIDER WORLD - How to talk to schools about AI policy, what AI means for college admissions essays and applications, and what actually transfers into the careers your child will eventually enter.
A PRACTICAL FIELD GUIDE - How to evaluate any AI tool for safety and privacy, how to choose tools by age and purpose, and a working guide to tutoring, creative, research, and language tools.
THE FAMILY PLAYBOOK - An age-by-age roadmap for how your approach should shift as your child grows from 10 to 18, a fill-in Family AI Agreement you build together, and a plan for keeping the conversation alive for years, not just one talk. Every chapter closes with the same four-part structure: a clear takeaway of what parents should know, a conversation starter for your family, a simple activity to try that night, and a set of ready-to-use AI prompts. You don't have to read this cover to cover to get value from it - though most parents will want to. Five appendices extend the book into a genuine reference you'll return to: 50 safe, vetted prompts for students, 60 prompts for parents navigating their own AI use, a glossary of AI risks and terms every parent should know, a complete fill-in Family AI Agreement template, and a simple checklist for evaluating whether any AI answer can be trusted. This book rests on one core idea: AI is not a substitute for your child's mind. It's an extension of it - one that can make their thinking sharper and more capable, or quietly hollow it out, depending almost entirely on how it's used. Just as earlier generations of parents learned to guide their kids through calculators, the internet, and smartphones, this book gives you the same kind of active, evolving guidance for AI - not prohibition, not passive acceptance, but real engagement.
Written by PMV Consulting LLC, this is the guide for parents who want to raise a child who can think for themselves in a world where a machine can think for them - if they let it.
THE FULL RISK LANDSCAPE - The most thorough treatment of AI risk available for parents, covering privacy and data collection, hallucinations and false information, algorithmic bias, over-reliance and skill atrophy, the real line between cheating and legitimate AI assistance, digital reputation, emotional over-attachment to chatbots, and predatory manipulation. Every risk chapter pairs the problem with something concrete you can actually do about it.
THE REAL OPPORTUNITY - How AI can genuinely accelerate your child's learning as a patient tutor, a partner for overcoming writer's block, a tool for building executive function, and a collaborator in creative work - when it's used as a thinking partner instead of a thinking replacement.
SCHOOL AND THE WIDER WORLD - How to talk to schools about AI policy, what AI means for college admissions essays and applications, and what actually transfers into the careers your child will eventually enter.
A PRACTICAL FIELD GUIDE - How to evaluate any AI tool for safety and privacy, how to choose tools by age and purpose, and a working guide to tutoring, creative, research, and language tools.
THE FAMILY PLAYBOOK - An age-by-age roadmap for how your approach should shift as your child grows from 10 to 18, a fill-in Family AI Agreement you build together, and a plan for keeping the conversation alive for years, not just one talk. Every chapter closes with the same four-part structure: a clear takeaway of what parents should know, a conversation starter for your family, a simple activity to try that night, and a set of ready-to-use AI prompts. You don't have to read this cover to cover to get value from it - though most parents will want to. Five appendices extend the book into a genuine reference you'll return to: 50 safe, vetted prompts for students, 60 prompts for parents navigating their own AI use, a glossary of AI risks and terms every parent should know, a complete fill-in Family AI Agreement template, and a simple checklist for evaluating whether any AI answer can be trusted. This book rests on one core idea: AI is not a substitute for your child's mind. It's an extension of it - one that can make their thinking sharper and more capable, or quietly hollow it out, depending almost entirely on how it's used. Just as earlier generations of parents learned to guide their kids through calculators, the internet, and smartphones, this book gives you the same kind of active, evolving guidance for AI - not prohibition, not passive acceptance, but real engagement.
Written by PMV Consulting LLC, this is the guide for parents who want to raise a child who can think for themselves in a world where a machine can think for them - if they let it.
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