The framework
Five human skills to prioritise in an AI-shaped world
Parents arrive with three questions: is AI helping my child learn or doing it for them, what rules should we have, and how do I raise it without another argument? Each skill below answers part of that, and each chapter turns it into something you can do at home this week.
The courage to endure productive confusion without immediately outsourcing thinking to a chatbot.
When answers are instant and free, the greatest competitive advantage is the ability to ask deep questions.
Treating failure as iterative data and embracing the scientific method as a living family habit.
Understanding consequences, interconnections, and the systemic causes beneath surface headlines.
Perspective-taking, ethical discernment, and authentic emotional connection that algorithms can never fake.
What’s included
A book that fits into a parent’s day
From the blog
The questions parents ask me most
The five skills · 29 October 2026
How to teach kids critical thinking skills (with AI in the room)
Ask better questions than you answer, and make checking a habit. Here is how to build both at the kitchen table, with real questions to use at each age and a three-step rule for everything an AI tells your child.
Safety and apps · 26 October 2026
Is Google Gemini safe for kids?
About as safe as ChatGPT, with the same habits, and under 13 only through a Family Link account you switch on yourself. The rules by account type, the three risks that do not change, what I allow at each age, and the Family Link steps.
Safety and apps · 22 October 2026
Nudify apps and deepfakes: the conversation to have before it happens
Have the emergency conversation tonight, before anything happens, and teach the rule that nothing goes online you would not show a stranger. What the tools do, the numbers, how to spot a fake, and exactly what to do if it happens to your child.
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Complete digital edition & audiobook
- All 23 chapters with 20 illustrated figures, age-specific guidance for 5 to 18
- The 20-Minute Rule, the V.E.T. rule and scripts for the hard conversations
- Audiobook narration in Dennis's voice, with a driving mode for the car
- The printable Companion Pack: 14 worksheets, posters and cards
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By Dennis Kriel: twenty years in education, and a parent.
About the author
Dennis Kriel
Dennis Kriel spent more than twenty years in education and instructional design before becoming an AI implementation consultant and speaker in Pretoria, South Africa. He wrote Raising AI-Ready Children as the parent of growing children who were already reaching for AI, and he speaks at schools and parent evenings about raising children who can think alongside AI. He has also trained over 500 leaders across twelve industries and runs five businesses.
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