ChatGPT arrived in your child's life before any guidance arrived in yours. That is not a parenting failure. It is the situation every parent of a school-age child is in right now —navigating something genuinely unprecedented without a roadmap, trying to figure out what is appropriate and what is harmful and what to do when the line is not clear.

Raising Kids in the Age of AI is that roadmap. Written for parents of children ages six through eighteen, it provides the practical, balanced, age-specific guidance that no other book has brought together in one place.

• age-specific AI guidelines for three developmental stages (6-10, 11-14, 15-18), with clear guidance on what is appropriate and what is not at each stage;
• a plain-language AI literacy primer that gives parents enough understanding to guide their children without a computer science degree;
• honest analysis of how children and teenagers are actually using AI, including the surprising ways middle schoolers are engaging with AI companion platforms;
• practical homework policies that distinguish between AI as a learning enhancer and AI as a learning replacer;
• AI content literacy skills for the whole family—how to recognize AI-generated text, how to spot deepfakes, how to fact-check in an AI-saturated information environment;
• complete guidance on children's AI privacy and data safety;
• a step-by-step process for building a Family Technology Agreement that children actually helped create and are therefore more likely to follow; and
• scripts and conversation frameworks for the AI-related discussions that parents most need to have and least feel prepared for.

This is not a book about banning AI or pretending it is harmless. It is a book for parents who understand that the technology is here to stay and who want to raise children who are both genuinely AI-literate and genuinely, irreducibly human. The parents who get this right will not be the ones who were most restrictive or most permissive—they will be the ones who stayed engaged, kept the conversation open, and gave their children the framework to navigate this world with wisdom and confidence.