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.
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A book that fits into a parent’s day
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- 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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