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Two children flying through a starry, book-filled dreamscape of light and knowledge, watched over from a library balcony

Lafayette Public Library · August 1, 2026

AI and Parenting

Raising kids in a new world

Three questions. One promise. What AI is, what it can do for how kids learn, and what keeps us human while they grow up with it.

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10:00 AM· Free · Open to all parents, grandparents & educators

02 · THE CONTEXT

They are already swimming in it.

Reading.Writing.Research.Analysis.Code.Creation.Conversation.

Our job is not to keep AI out. It is to teach them how to steer.

03 · Saturday’s map

Three questions. One promise.

I

What is AI?

A mental model you can repeat at the kitchen table.

II

What can it do?

Tools and habits that make learning stronger.

III

What keeps us human?

Voice, judgment, struggle, and real relationships.

IWhat is AI?

Two librarians, one pie, and lightning in rocks.

A mental model you can repeat at the kitchen table — starting with the oldest tool in the room.

A woman studies a map beside a mechanical librarian, an apple pie, and a bottled lightning bolt on a library table
A golden mechanical librarian points a child and parent toward a glowing book on a towering shelf of an ornate library

05—06 · Two librarians

One kind of librarian walks you to the book. The other has read every book ever written.

A cracked black stone crackling with turquoise lightning, scattering books and instruments across a dark library

10—11 · The big picture

In 2017, one research paper quietly changed what a machine could become.

07—09 · Live demo

The pie test

“Make me a good apple pie.” Good to whom?

A steampunk robot presents a family with an impossible tower of apple pies of every style, from a book-lined kitchen

“Make me a good apple pie recipe.”

Toggle both. Notice what changes — we'll unpack why, live.

IIWhat can AI do?

The best use is not writing for kids. It is helping them learn.

Tools and habits that make learning stronger — the boring superpower is organization.

Parents, a robot, and a student gather around tables in a grand library at night, working with lanterns and notebooks
A parent and child stand inside a glowing glass tower of knowledge with a robot guide, surrounded by books, instruments, and light paths

Tool no. 1

A free tool turns any pile of notes into a private study guide.

A student at a library desk looks up at a golden robot tutor as equations and sound waves stream overhead

Tool no. 2

You can teach an AI how your specific child learns best.

A glowing path of study notes and checklists winds from a chaotic pile of homework to a robot mentor helping a student write

The boring superpower

The single most powerful use of AI for grades has nothing to do with writing essays.

IIIWhat keeps us human?

Our kids have no backstage.

Voice, relationships, assumptions, and a childhood lived in public.

A teenager kneels beside a skateboard in a plaza ringed by watchful camera-like sculptures, facing a warm, book-lined library doorway
A boy stands alone in a doorway between two mirrored rooms, each filled with rows of identical reflected figures

On voice

AI can write convincingly in your child's voice.

A child stands at a threshold between two glowing oval rooms, one holding a robot and empty study desk, the other a full family

On relationships

It's built to please you — not to be honest with you.

31—32 · THE CLOSE

Three things to keep. One skill that outlasts any model update.

The last ten minutes are the ones parents quote back for months.

Sealed until Saturday morning.

33 · TAKE THIS HOME

Raise kids who can direct AI.

One more resource to keep going after Saturday.

Lafayette Public Library · August 1, 2026

Free and open to the public. No registration required.

Bring the kids, bring the questions. Doors at 10:00 AM, Lafayette, CO.

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