🎨 6 free things to make with ChatGPT's new image tool (I made a PDF)
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Happy Friday folks!
Quick context for this week's newsletter. The question I get asked more than any other by parents is some version of “which AI tools are actually safe to use with my kids?” This week’s three stories are all different answers to that question.
In this week’s email:
6 specific things your kid can make with ChatGPT Images 2.0 this weekend (with a free one-page PDF you can print)
ChatGPT Images 2.0 vs Grok Imagine. One is family-friendly. One really isn’t. The gap is wider than most parents realise.
How old your child actually needs to be to useClaude (with the supervised workaround I use at home)
🎨 6 free things your kids can make with ChatGPT Images 2.0 this weekend
OpenAI quietly upgraded ChatGPT’s image generator this month and it is now genuinely impressive. More importantly, it is the first AI image tool I am comfortable having open on a shared family device while the kids are around.
Some fun and interesting use cases I've been playing with are the following:
A character design sheet with the same character drawn from four angles (front, side, back, action pose)
A comic strip version of their own bedtime story, with speech bubbles that are actually readable (image above)
A realistic magazine cover with their face (or their character) on it, headlines spelled correctly
A classroom-quality infographic about whatever they are learning this week, with accurate labels
A sports poster of last night’s game, with the final score, date, and player names in team colours
A detailed town scene with exactly 100 hidden things and a numbered legend to find them all
Every prompt is in the full guide, plus the three parental-control settings I switch on first. There is a free one-page PDF at the bottom of the post — print it, follow it with your kid this weekend.
An infographic I created for my son who is learning all about Africa in school this week
⚖️ ChatGPT Images 2.0 vs Grok Imagine. Only one is safe for kids.
Both tools are showing up in parents’ feeds right now. So I tested them side by side and wrote the comparison I wish I had had a month ago.
The short version:
ChatGPT Images 2.0 has proper parental controls, age detection, content filters. You can leave it open with an 8-year-old in the room. Read the new review here.
Grok Imagine is genuinely brilliant for animation (we used it for the Julia Donaldson project two weeks ago and I wrote a full review of it here a couple of weeks back). But it sits inside an app that Common Sense Media has rated not safe for teens. Spicy mode is one tap from the family features. The Ani companion enables NSFW roleplay.
🧠 How old does your child have to be to use Claude?
I get this question almost weekly. So yesterday I published a full guide.
Short answer: 13+ for Claude.ai. But there is a parent-operated workaround I use with my 8-year-old that most people miss, and it is the cleanest under-13 setup I have found.
The post covers the official Anthropic policy, what Claude's content moderation actually does, how it compares to ChatGPT and Gemini's age rules, and the three supervised workflows we run at home.
