I’m a Mom Who Loves AI. Here’s What I’m Teaching My Kids About It.

I’ll be honest with you: I love AI.

I know that’s not what you expected to read on a parenting blog in 2026, when every other headline is telling you to take the screens away, go analog, and raise your kids on boredom and board games. And look, I get it. I think a lot of that is right. Boredom is underrated. We love boardgames. We don't do any screen time with our kids.

But I also think the conversation about AI and kids is missing something important. Because the families deciding to “opt out” of AI? Their kids are still going to grow up in a world shaped entirely by it. The question isn’t whether AI will be part of their lives, but rather whether we’ll be the ones to teach them how to use it...or whether they’ll figure it out alone.

I’d rather be in the room for that conversation. 

My kids are growing up in an AI world. That’s a responsibility, not a problem.

When we built Kora, we kept coming back to one idea: AI should be an enhancer, not a replacement. It should make you more capable, more creative, more present - not more passive.

That’s how I use it in my own life. When Kora helps me plan our weekly meals, build the grocery list, and place the Instacart order, that’s not me outsourcing my family. That’s me reclaiming two hours of mental bandwidth and giving it back to the people who actually need it - my kids. And, as we all know, kids love a good example. Isn't it a good thing to show them how to outsource time consuming tasks, so they can spend more time on the things they love?

So I started asking myself: what does that look like for them? What does it mean to raise kids who are genuinely good at using AI, and not dependent on it, but empowered by it?

Here’s what I’ve landed on.

Teach them to ask better questions, not just get faster answers.

The single most valuable skill in an AI world isn’t knowing how to use a tool. It’s knowing what to ask and how to dig deep and keep asking.

When my kids use AI for a school project, I don’t let them copy the first answer they get. We talk about it. What did you actually want to know? Is that the right question? What did the answer miss? What would you ask differently next time?

This is what educators call “prompt thinking”, and I’d argue it’s the new critical thinking. I'd even go further and argue that this is not a new idea at all - this is the basis of problem solving. A kid who can articulate a clear, specific question and evaluate the response they get is a kid who’s going to be remarkable in any field they choose.

AI can handle the execution. It can write the first draft, generate the options, crunch the numbers. But the ideas? The judgment about which answer is actually good? That still has to be human. That still has to be them.

Focus on ideas. Let AI handle the execution.

This is the one I think about most as a parent, and the one that excites me the most.

My generation spent enormous mental energy on execution. Formatting the document. Looking up the fact. Calculating the thing. So much of school was really just testing whether you could hold information and reproduce it correctly.

My kids’ generation doesn’t have to do that. AI can handle the execution layer. Which means - if we teach them well - they get to spend their energy on what’s always been the harder and more interesting part: the ideas.

What do you actually want to say? What problem are you really trying to solve? What’s your perspective on this? Those questions can’t be outsourced. And a generation that grows up asking them constantly? I think they’re going to be the most creative generation we’ve ever seen.

Use it to build habits, not replace them.

Here’s where I see a lot of families go wrong with AI: they use it to skip the habit entirely, instead of building it.

There’s a difference between a kid who uses AI to shortcut their homework and a kid who uses AI to learn faster. One is avoiding the work. The other is doing more of it - just better.

In our house, we use Kora to build routines: morning check-ins, chore tracking, goals on the board where everyone can see them. The AI part isn’t replacing the habit. It’s holding the habit accountable. The kids still have to do the work. Kora just makes it harder to pretend you forgot.

That distinction matters. A tool that builds discipline is very different from one that erodes it.

Will AI make our kids more creative? I think yes.

I want to end with this, because it’s the question I find most exciting.

There’s a fear that AI will flatten creativity, that if machines can generate anything, nothing will feel original anymore. I understand that fear. But I think it gets the direction of causation backwards.

When you remove the friction of execution, you lower the barrier to ideas. You can try more things, explore more directions, fail faster and iterate sooner. You’re not less creative because you have a great tool - you’re more creative, because the tool handles the parts that used to stop you before you even started.

My kids are already showing me this. When they’re not stuck on the “how,” they spend a lot more time on the “what if.” And honestly? The “what if” was always the good part.

We have a window right now - a chance to be the generation of parents who got this right. Who didn’t hide AI from their kids or hand it to them uncritically. Who taught them to use it the way we’d want them to use any powerful tool: thoughtfully, curiously, and with a clear sense of who’s still in charge.

That’s what I’m trying to do. One conversation at a time.

- Delina