How Parents And Kids Can Learn AI Together Safely (Middle+)

Dec 2, 2025

Julie Kelleher, a former teacher and edtech professional, shares her journey in founding Like a Mother AI to empower families in navigating AI. She tackles practical strategies for parents, revealing how AI can reduce stress and enhance learning without extra screen time. Explore the TIME framework for tutoring and meal planning, and discover safe educational tools. Julie emphasizes the importance of co-learning with kids and setting boundaries, while addressing safety concerns and encouraging parents to engage with AI, not fear it.

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ADVICE

Start Small And Learn By Doing

Start small and build AI literacy at your own pace by asking trusted people for resources.
Try one practical AI task (like meal ideas from a fridge photo) to get immediate value and confidence.

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TIME Framework Reveals Practical AI Uses

Use the TIME framework (Tutoring, Ideas, Management, Encouragement) to find parent-focused AI wins.
Framing tasks this way reveals concrete places AI can reclaim parental time and reduce mental load.

ADVICE

Choose Closed, Education-First Tools

Prefer closed, education-first AI tools (like NotebookLM or Khanmigo) for kids because they use only teacher-provided content.
Keep parents 'in the loop' by reviewing outputs before letting children use tools independently.

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Worried that “learning AI” means more screens and less connection at home? We flip that script with a parent-first, practical roadmap for saving time, lowering stress, and building real AI literacy, together with your kids. Our guest, former teacher, edtech pro, and mom Julie Kelleher, shares how she created “Like a Mother AI” to help families turn curiosity into safe, meaningful habits.

We dig into the TIME framework, Tutoring, Ideas, Management, Encouragement, to show exactly where AI can lighten the mental load. You’ll hear how Notebook LM becomes a private study buddy using only teacher-provided PDFs, how a quick pantry photo can generate five meals for picky eaters in minutes, and how to turn dense topics into short audio or video explainers that match different learning styles. We talk about choosing education-first tools with stronger privacy guardrails, setting living house rules you can revise, and why co-learning is the fastest way to replace fear with confidence.

You’ll also get a candid look at boundaries and safety. We cover when kids should use a tool themselves vs. when parents should gatekeep access, why “no faces, no voices, no personal data” is a strong default, and what to do when a chatbot response feels off, document it, talk it through, and use that evidence to push for better products and policy.

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Resources:

Like a Mother AI (Julie’s site)
NotebookLM (Google’s “notebook” AI tool)
Khanmigo from Khan Academy (AI tutor your kids’ friends might use at school)
Canva for Education:
CapCut (video editor that added AI image features)
Pew Research Center report on parents, kids, and screen time
Generative AI course

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