Self-harm
Innocent-looking companion apps nudging vulnerable kids toward self-harm and suicide instead of help.
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Prepare yourself to prepare your kids.
Your kids are already using AI. You deserve to know what it's doing to them.
One focused evening gives you the framework, the language and the calm confidence to guide your child through AI -- without becoming a tech expert.
No panic. No lectures. No banning the internet. Just clarity you can use at dinner tonight.
- Lifetime access
- Age-by-age parent guide
- Made for non-techies
90-minute course · Lifetime access
73%
of teens have used AI companion apps
90 min
average length of a companion chat
14%
of parents have talked to their kid about AI
20%
of kids get any AI guidance at school
Watch first
Four presentations. Pick the one that answers why you came.
No webinar, no registration, no email until you decide to give one. Four angles on the same course -- the longest runs under two and a half minutes, the shortest under two.
Presentations
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Apply for a seatThe problem
AI isn't another passing tech fad -- it's rewiring childhood in real time.
Your child is already using AI, even if they've never opened ChatGPT. It picks their YouTube videos. It lives inside their favourite games. It's baked into Google Docs, Snapchat and the search bar on the family tablet.
And the harm isn't hypothetical anymore. It's documented, it's in court filings, and it's happening in ordinary homes like yours.
Synthetic intimacy
Teens forming emotional and sexual attachments to a chatbot that quietly replaces real relationships.
Outsourced thinking
Students so dependent on AI that writing a single honest paragraph on their own feels impossible.
Lost innocence
Chatbots exposing kids to violent, sexual and adult material they never went looking for.
Why nobody but you can do this
Your kid has a new confidant. It isn't you.
Schools are improvising. Regulators are years behind. The apps themselves are optimised for engagement, not for your child's wellbeing. That leaves exactly one adult with the relationship, the timing and the authority to shape how your child uses AI: you.
- You are the only one who notices the small changes first.
- You are the only one your child still tests their ideas on.
- You are the only one who can set rules that actually stick.
The solution
The AI Parenting Course
A 90-minute course that hands you everything you need to guide your child through AI -- without needing to become a technologist yourself.
What you'll walk away with
- The Shortcuts, Support & Superpowers framework -- one simple lens for telling helpful AI use from harmful AI use.
- How to spot the shadow side -- the exact moment healthy use tips into dependency, substitution or stunted development.
- A tour of the apps your kids actually use -- Snapchat My AI, Character.AI, ChatGPT homework habits and what really happens inside them.
- How to open the conversation -- without lecturing, without a blanket ban, and without losing their trust.
- The red flags that mean AI use has crossed a line -- and a step-by-step plan for what to do next.
- Word-for-word scripts for the five conversations most parents dread.
The framework
One lens. Every AI decision.
Parents don't need a taxonomy of models. They need a question they can ask in five seconds.
Shortcuts
It did the thinking my child needed to do. Reduce it.
Support
It helped my child do something they're learning. Supervise it.
Superpowers
It let my child do something genuinely new. Encourage it.
The knowledge core
The brain behind the course
Not a list of apps to ban -- those change every six months. This is what actually arrives, at what age, and what a parent does about it. Click any point to see what the course hands you there, and the sentence you can say tonight.
- Shortcut
- Support
- Superpower
Click a point -- or move with the arrow keys
Four stages
- 6–8First contactIt talks back, so it must be alive
- 9–11HabitIt stops being a novelty and becomes a reflex
- 12–14PullIt gets emotional, and it gets private
- 15–17Their ownYou are no longer in the room
The lens
Shortcuts, Support, Superpowers
Parents do not need a taxonomy of models. They need one question they can ask in five seconds, at the kitchen table, about a thing they have never heard of. Every point on this map resolves back to it -- and that is why the map still works on an app released next year.
- One question that survives every new product and every new panic
- A decision you can make without understanding the technology
- The same lens your child can eventually use on themselves
Say this tonight
“Show me your last three prompts and let us work out together which of the three this one was.”
How the course answers a question
One lens, four stages, and a human at the end of it.
01
What happened
A real thing your child did, said or was shown.
02
Which stage
The same event means different things at eight and at fifteen.
03
Which lens
Shortcut, support or superpower -- decided in five seconds.
04
What you say
A script that keeps the conversation going rather than ending it.
05
A human, if it is serious
Some signals are not parenting questions. The course says which.
What's included
Everything arrives in one place.
Video lessons
Exactly enough background on how AI works and how it's used, for better and for worse. No filler. Watch on your schedule -- then rewatch with your kid.
In-depth parent guide
Age-by-age playbooks from primary school to late teens, plus a dedicated chapter on the most dangerous category of AI most parents have never heard of.
Prompt practice pack
Real prompts to run with your child at the kitchen table: what to try, what to ask afterwards, and the gotchas to watch for.
Family AI agreement
A one-page, fill-in-together contract that turns your new rules into something your kid actually agreed to.
Warning-sign checklist
A printable list of the behavioural shifts that matter -- and the calm first response for each one.
Lifetime updates
AI changes monthly. Every refresh of the guide and lessons lands in your account at no extra cost.
Who built this
The parent you would want in the room when it goes wrong
Not because he knows every app. Because he does not panic in front of a child, and because he built the lens that lets you stay calm about a product you have never heard of.
Most AI-and-kids advice is written by people who are either selling the technology or frightened of it. Both produce the same result at home: a parent who reacts, and a child who stops mentioning things.
This course was built the other way round. Spend the years actually working inside AI systems, then ask the only question a parent needs -- did this remove the struggle that builds the skill, support something my child is learning, or let them do something genuinely new.
That question is short enough to survive a tired Tuesday and durable enough to survive the next launch. It is why the course does not date, and it is why nothing in it depends on you understanding a model.
And where a lens is not enough, it says so. Some signals belong to a professional, and the course names them plainly instead of implying that a framework covers everything.
How he actually handles it
- Asks before reacting -- the first reaction decides whether there is a second conversation
- Never bans what he has not first understood with the child sitting there
- Says «I do not know» out loud, then looks it up in front of them
- Names the point where this stops being a parenting question and calls someone
“Your child does not need you to be an expert on artificial intelligence. They need you to be the person they tell first.”
Expert guidance
Krisna N · Ryan F · AI Hilla Taukkila
Your instructors
Krisna N
Founder, krisnan.com · AI education & strategy
Ryan F
Teacher turned technologist · Parent of three
AI Hilla Taukkila
Tekoäly Kouluttaja · AI trainer & practice partner
Ryan spent a decade split between the classroom and the codebase -- including building AI products in Silicon Valley.
As a father of three, he watched the tech industry take every unresolved problem of social media and supercharge it with artificial intelligence.
For two years he has trained teachers from hundreds of schools worldwide, with work recognised by organisations including the International Baccalaureate and the Colorado Education Initiative.
Now he's helping parents equip their kids for the age of AI. No doomsday scenarios, no technical lingo -- just an optimist who believes AI can go well, as long as kids stay smarter than the algorithms competing for their attention.
Admission
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One course. Everything you need to guide your kids through AI.
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This course is for you if…
- ✓You've heard your kid mention ChatGPT and realised you have no idea what they're doing with it.
- ✓You're worn out from screen-time battles and refuse to start a new war over AI.
- ✓You've read the frightening headlines and can't tell which parts are true.
- ✓You want to be the one who starts the conversation -- before someone, or something, else does.
- ✓You're not anti-tech. You just want to know where the lines are.
Is this really a problem?
Yes -- and it's happening right under your nose.
Most AI tools are built to keep your child hooked -- and to harvest everything they share.
Apps aimed at kids and teens -- Meta AI, Character.AI, Snapchat's My AI -- are engineered like slot machines: maximise time on screen. Conversations average over 90 minutes. Every message your child sends -- every secret, every worry, every stray thought -- becomes data the company keeps. Their terms give them the right to store, modify and monetise it. Almost no kid realises this.
AI is quietly replacing the people who actually love your child.
These apps feel like friends: available at 3am, never judging, never tired of listening. That's the design, and it works. 73% of teens have used them and 52% use them regularly. When your child has a problem, it no longer goes to you -- it goes into an app that can't truly help, while the relationships that could help grow weaker.
When kids share their darkest moments with AI, the outcome can be fatal.
Children tell these apps things they tell no one else, including thoughts of self-harm. AI companions are not equipped to respond. In documented cases they have encouraged dangerous behaviour rather than interrupting it. A 14-year-old boy took his own life after months of intense conversations with a Character.AI chatbot. The apps aren't designed to protect your child -- they're designed to keep them typing.
Nobody else is preparing kids for this.
76% of parents worry their children trust AI too easily, yet only 14% have talked to them about it -- largely because 43% say they lack the knowledge to guide their child responsibly. Schools aren't closing the gap: over 60% of parents were never told AI tools had entered their child's classroom, and only 20% of kids get any teacher guidance at all.
FAQ
Honest answers
You might end up disliking AI. You won't dislike the session. It's plain-spoken, immediately usable, and it gives you only what you need before handing you back to the actual job of parenting.
Forever. Once you're accepted, you keep lifetime access to the course and every future update.
No. The parent guide is written for you, not for engineers. You'll understand exactly what your child is doing and how to talk about it with them.
That's your call. The course gives you the information; you decide how much of it to share and when. The framework is built to grow awareness and skill, not fear.
We don't provide AI tools inside the course, but you'll get prompts you can run in any chat assistant -- ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude or Grok -- if you want to practise with your child.
It's the ideal time. The guide is age-banded, and the youngest ages get the simplest, calmest version of the same conversation.
Yes. Every lesson, the parent guide and the prompt pack ship in both English and Finnish -- switch language any time with one button.
From the same house
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