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Parents & Carers Toolkit
Help your child use AI with confidence, curiosity and sensible boundaries — even if you are learning too.
For every parent or carer who wants to help but does not feel like an AI expert.
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Your human skills are the important part.
You do not need to understand every model, app or technical term. Your child needs your judgement, curiosity and life experience. Learn beside them, ask good questions and keep the conversation open.
Why encourage supported AI use?
01
AI will be part of their future
Children will meet AI in education, work and everyday life. Guided practice now helps them become capable users rather than passive consumers.
02
Banning it does not teach judgement
Children need chances to practise when AI is useful, when it is wrong and when they should complete work without it.
03
Thinking matters more than tool knowledge
Your role is to ask: Is that true? Is it fair? What did you learn? Could you explain it yourself? Those questions remain useful when tools change.
04
It can remove barriers to learning
Used carefully, AI can reword instructions, read text aloud, break down tasks and offer patient practice for anxious or neurodivergent learners.
05
Open conversations improve safety
Children are more likely to mention a strange answer, scam or upsetting image when AI is discussed calmly rather than treated as a secret or automatic wrongdoing.
What you can do now
- Sit together for ten minutes and ask the AI the same question in two different ways.
- Agree what information must never be shared: full name, school, address, passwords, private photos or family details.
- Use the family rule: AI can help with ideas and explanations; the child must understand and own the final answer.
- Ask your child to show you one useful AI interaction and one answer they did not trust.
- Check important claims with a reliable second source and open any citations before believing them.
- Keep screen-free tasks, creativity and human help in the mix; AI is one tool, not the whole learning process.
Key guidance
Homework without cheating
Let AI explain, quiz, brainstorm or give feedback. Do not let it replace the child's thinking or produce work they cannot explain.
Learning support
Try simpler wording, step-by-step plans, read-aloud support and low-pressure practice while checking that the child is still building independence.
Healthy boundaries
Decide together when AI is appropriate, when another person is better and when the device should be put away.
Plain-English help
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Use the AI Library for straightforward definitions, examples and company guides.
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