🧠 Free AI Guides for Parents

Keep your kids safe, smart, and supported while using AI tools at home.

Whether your child is using AI to help with homework, explore creative ideas, or just have fun, these tools come with real risks—and powerful potential. That’s why we’ve created three plain-English guides to help you stay one step ahead.

Each guide includes:

  • Step-by-step safety settings

  • Kid-friendly use ideas

  • Privacy and data tips

  • Quick-start checklists for busy parents

1. ChatGPT Guide for Parents

Your child’s homework buddy, bedtime story machine, and curiosity engine—if used safely.

✅ How to enable safe mode
✅ Phrases to watch out for
✅ Real-world use ideas: storytelling, project help, vocabulary practice
✅ Hidden risk: over-trusting AI responses

2. Gemini (Google) Guide for Parents

Google’s AI comes baked into search, Chrome, and Android—your child may be using it without knowing.

✅ Where Gemini shows up in everyday apps
✅ How to check what your child’s seen
✅ Family Link integration tips
✅ Unique feature: Multimodal responses (text, image, video) explained simply

3. Claude (Anthropic) Guide for Parents

Claude is calm, polite, and context-aware—great for older kids and teens exploring ideas.

✅ Safer by design? What Anthropic's "Constitutional AI" means for your child
✅ How to limit what Claude remembers
✅ Best for: debates, creative writing, research help
✅ Unique feature: Handles long conversations without losing the thread

💡 Why These Guides Matter

AI tools aren’t going away. But the right guidance can turn passive scrolling into powerful learning.

You don’t need to be a tech expert. You just need to be informed.
These free PDFs are your first step.

📥 All guides are free to download, print, and share with other families or schools.