Where AI genuinely helps parents
The strongest uses are on the parent side of the desk, not the child's.
- Generating practice questions at the right difficulty
- Explaining a topic in a second way when the first explanation failed
- Drafting weekly plans and checklists
- Summarising a syllabus into teachable chunks
Where to keep it out
If a tool does the thinking a task was designed to develop - writing the essay, solving the problem, summarising the reading - it removes the learning. Keep struggle where struggle is the point.
Teach AI literacy explicitly
Children should learn to check outputs, cite sources and recognise confident errors. That is a future-skill in its own right.