Guides
The long versions. No email required to read any of them — the checklist and the paid products are there if you want the printable, scored version, but everything essential is on these pages.
Is my child ready for AI?
Three completely different things get called “AI” and only one of them is the one the headlines are about. How to tell them apart, eight readiness signs, four hard stops, and the words to say once you know which one is on the phone.
How to know if your child is ready for a phone
Twelve signs that have nothing to do with their birthday, four situations where the answer is no regardless of the score, and the sentence that ends the “everyone else has one” argument without a fight.
First phone rules that actually hold
The five rules that do almost all of the work, three popular ones that quietly create more conflict than they prevent, and how to write the agreement so it reads as a deal rather than a list of orders.
“I’m the only one without a phone”
What is actually being lost — usually the group chat rather than the device — five things that help without buying a phone, and the five conditions under which your no should honestly become a yes.
The scored versions
Two free printable tests, each putting one of the guides above into a form you can score, so you get an answer rather than a feeling. Take whichever question you are actually stuck on — or both, they are the two halves of the same decision.
The 12-point phone readiness test The AI Readiness TestNo cost. One email. Unsubscribe whenever you like.
More coming
New guides go up as the questions come in — from YouTube comments and from parents who reply to the checklist email. If there is something you want covered, replying to that email is the way to ask.