AI Is Already in Your 5 to 10-Year-Old's World. Here's How to Be There With Them.

If you have a child between five and ten years old, this episode is for you. AI is already in your young child's world — in their Google searches, their YouTube recommendations, their voice assistants, and their learning platforms. The question is not whether they will encounter it. The question is whether you are there with them when they do. In this episode Florence sits down with Sonny Sharma, an education leader with over ten years of classroom experience — including some of the toughest inner city schools in the UK — and a dad of three children aged six, seventeen, and twenty-one. He is living this conversation in real time, and he has thought about it more carefully than most. Sonny shares a practical five-point roadmap for parents of young children navigating AI — from how to demystify it without making it frightening, to why you should be sitting alongside your child every time they use it, to how to turn catching AI out into a game that builds healthy scepticism without fear. Florence also raises the school choice question head on. Should parents be impressed when a primary school puts AI at the centre of its pitch? Sonny's answer might surprise you. And he gives parents the exact question to ask any school about safeguarding — one that will immediately tell you whether they have genuinely thought about it. This is one of the most practical and genuinely hopeful conversations The AI Mum has had. By the end of it you will have five things you can do differently this week — without making AI feel like a threat in your home. 📋 Click here to access Sonny's Handy Guide for Parents. Simple steps, smart questions, stronger kids. 🎙️ Listen on Apple Podcasts — podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-ai-mum-podcast/id1892893748 Instagram: @theaimumpodcast