My Child and AI: A Parent's Workshop
Your child probably knows more about AI apps than you do, and that gap is uncomfortable. This two-hour session closes it. You will try ChatGPT and Meta AI on WhatsApp yourself, so nothing feels like a mystery. We walk through what children in Class 3 to 8 typically do with AI, where the real risks sit, and which safety and screen-time settings to switch on tonight. You will learn a simple way to let AI support homework without doing the homework. You leave with a family AI agreement, drafted by you in class, ready to discuss at the dinner table.
Who is this for: Parents and guardians of school children from Class 3 to 8, no kids in this one
Where this course sits
For complete beginners. No AI experience needed, and no coding, ever. If you can use WhatsApp, you are ready.
Prerequisites: None. Bring your own smartphone if you can. No technical background needed, and there is no coding anywhere.
Exactly what happens in these 2 hours
No vague promises. Open each day and see what you will learn and the real thing you will make.
Hour1
See AI the way your child does
Try it yourself, then tour what kids actually do with it
- You try AI first: a guided ChatGPT chat in the opening 30 minutes
- Tour of what kids really do with AI: stories, images, homework help, doubt solving
- Where AI goes wrong: hallucination shown live, and how to verify answers together
You make today: Your own first AI conversation, saved, with a fact-check habit practised live
Hour2
Set up, agree, go home ready
Safety settings and house rules the whole family signs
- Privacy walk-through: what your child should never type or upload
- Screen-time and safety settings, switched on together on your own phone
- Homework rules that work: practice partner yes, ghostwriter no
You make today: A one-page family AI agreement, drafted in class and ready for the whole family to sign
Walk out able to do this
- Use ChatGPT and Meta AI on WhatsApp confidently enough to sit beside your child
- Recognise the most common things school kids do with AI today
- Turn on key safety and screen-time settings on the family phone or tablet
- Tell the difference between AI as a homework helper and AI as a homework doer
- Ask three simple questions that reveal how your child is actually using AI
- Draft a one-page family AI agreement your child can read and sign
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Tools you will use
To bring: None. Bring your own smartphone if you can. No technical background needed, and there is no coding anywhere.
You leave with real things
Your family AI agreement, a settings checklist for phones and tablets, and a printed workbook of conversation starters and homework rules.
Your study material pack
- The full course workbook, chapter by chapter
- Every prompt used in class, ready to copy
- Checklists and templates from the exercises
You get a batch access code during the workshop. Enter it any time on the study material page to download everything.
Questions people actually ask
I have never used ChatGPT. Will I be lost?
No. The session assumes zero experience, and your very first AI chat happens in class with help beside you. Many parents in the room are opening these apps for the first time.
Should I not just ban AI apps at home instead?
That is your call, and we respect it. But children meet AI at school and at friends' homes anyway, so most parents find guiding beats banning. This session gives you what you need for either choice.
Will you tell me exactly which settings to change?
We walk through the settings that exist today on common apps and phones, together, on your device. Apps change often, so the checklist you take home also explains the principles, so you can find the setting even after an app update.
Can both parents attend, or should I bring my child?
Both parents or a parent and grandparent attending together works well and one registration covers your family. Please do not bring children to this one. It is designed for adult conversation, and the kids have their own workshops.
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