Picture this: You’re at family dinner, with the sacred “no electronics” rule, when your 8-year-old asks, “Dad, why does Alexa sometimes not understand what I say, but other times she knows exactly what I want?” You feel that familiar sinking feeling in your stomach—another tech question you don’t know how to answer appropriately.

If you’re like Michael, a Seattle dad who considers himself reasonably tech-savvy but feels completely lost about how to balance his kids’ fascination with AI with their natural instinct to protect them, you’re not alone. Perhaps you’ve also noticed your kids asking increasingly sophisticated questions about virtual assistants, or discovered that they’re using ChatGPT to “help” with their homework without really understanding how it works. The uncomfortable truth is that while you struggle to find the perfect balance between not leaving them “digitally behind” and not exposing them to “unnecessary risks,” your children are already interacting with artificial intelligence every day—at school, at friends’ houses, in apps you never even realized had AI built in.

Instead of trying to control or block access to AI, you can become the confident digital mentor who guides your children through Guided Digital Mentoring—a method where you discover together, transforming your “technological disadvantage” into your greatest strength as a parent.

It has helped families like the Rodriguezes, Thompsons, and Kims, who have moved from parental paranoia to becoming leaders in their communities for balanced family digital navigation.