Jul 6, 2026 · 38 min · 13 segments
In Part 1 of this conversation, Kyle and Sara talked about how AI is changing childhood and why parents need to stay curious, connected, and informed. In this Part 2 conversation, they get…
Kyle WesterHost
Sarah WesterHost
What is the issue? What is the problem that we're facing? What's coming at us? Then we want to move to action after that.
They're actually asking, what do I do with this? How involved should I be with this with my kid? What should I allow? What should I be concerned about? That's the questions that we hope to address today.
But the most important question for a lot to ask is how do I help my child develop healthy habits around AI before those habits develop on their own?
And some things are just becoming normal to them because many times parents haven't jumped into this with them to kind of have these discussions.
Well, you know, like kids are, we know they're all kind of sponges, right? So if it's there and they're curious, so they tend to jump into things real quick when we are maybe a little slower.
having conversations with other people all the time about this and ways in which AI can quote unquote help them.
And maybe we're hearing things occasionally on the news or having an occasional conversation, but they're immersed in this.
And what's so beautiful about the teenage brain and kids' brains is they're they're open and they're receptive and they're like, new things, cool, let's try these new things.
This is just another area of that where they tend to just really jump on these things and get them real quick.
Well, and so just like I would say the emergence of social media or before that, the emergence of the smartphone, this is another topic that we as parents cannot just sit with our heads stuck in the sand.
And so that's what we, throughout this podcast, we're going to give you a lot of tools to help you approach this with your ears open, your eyes open.
What is the issue? What is the problem that we're facing? What's coming at us? Then we want to move to action after that.
They're actually asking, what do I do with this? How involved should I be with this with my kid? What should I allow? What should I be concerned about? That's the questions that we hope to address today.
But the most important question for a lot to ask is how do I help my child develop healthy habits around AI before those habits develop on their own?
And some things are just becoming normal to them because many times parents haven't jumped into this with them to kind of have these discussions.
Well, you know, like kids are, we know they're all kind of sponges, right? So if it's there and they're curious, so they tend to jump into things real quick when we are maybe a little slower.
having conversations with other people all the time about this and ways in which AI can quote unquote help them.
And maybe we're hearing things occasionally on the news or having an occasional conversation, but they're immersed in this.
And what's so beautiful about the teenage brain and kids' brains is they're they're open and they're receptive and they're like, new things, cool, let's try these new things.
This is just another area of that where they tend to just really jump on these things and get them real quick.
Well, and so just like I would say the emergence of social media or before that, the emergence of the smartphone, this is another topic that we as parents cannot just sit with our heads stuck in the sand.
And so that's what we, throughout this podcast, we're going to give you a lot of tools to help you approach this with your ears open, your eyes open.
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