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Guides for Parents
Written for the parent who wants to help but has been given a lot of advice and very little that survives contact with an actual eight-year-old.
What actually helps
Six things worth doing at home
Ways of talking to your child that happen to build exactly the capabilities everything else here is about.
Ask why, not what
The most useful question you can ask about schoolwork is why they chose an answer, not whether it was right. It costs nothing and it is the single habit most closely linked to everything else here.
Let the first attempt be bad
Improving something weak is a skill, and it only develops if the weak version is allowed to exist. Tidying it up for them removes the part that mattered.
Disagree properly, sometimes
A child who has argued a position with an adult who took it seriously is far better placed than one who has only ever been corrected.
Use AI together, and check it
Ask a chatbot something you know well and find where it is wrong. That single exercise does more for AI literacy than any amount of warning.
Praise the process
Praising effort and approach rather than cleverness produces children who attempt harder things. This is one of the better-supported findings in the field.
Protect unstructured time
Capability needs somewhere to be practised without an adult setting the objective. A fully scheduled week leaves no room for that.
See how Glimmers builds on this
The app, Labs and the AIQ Challenge do the same work in three settings.