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🧮 I built Mateo a times tables game with AI. Then Friday's test happened.
Happy Wednesday folks! It's been a while. My last email was the David Attenborough documentary back in July, and I wanted the next one to be worth the wait. In this e…
Read issue →🐾 I made my kids an AI-style David Attenborough documentary. They're the animals.
Happy Sunday folks! This is, honestly, the best thing I have ever made with AI . A 60-second nature documentary, narrated like David Attenborough, about a glowing alien plan…
Read issue →🦥 I drew a sloth on our cable car video over Medellín. Then it came to life.
Happy Sunday folks! We're home from Colombia. The flight was rough, I was somewhere past hour 30 without sleep by the time we landed, and when I finally crawled into be…
Read issue →🏆 My 8-year-old judged ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude. The winner built him a toy.
Happy Sunday folks! Our five weeks in Colombia are nearly done. We fly home to Ireland on Thursday, and somehow this whole issue became about that flight. In this week…
Read issue →🇳🇴 A whole country just banned AI for under-13s in school. I think they're half right.
Happy Sunday folks! For a lot of you, the kids started their summer holidays this week, just as a whole country pulled AI out of its primary classrooms . It lined up with…
Read issue →🦉 I made your kid a quiz matched to their school year and curriculum
Happy Sunday folks! Apologies for the late send this week. Three things we worked on since last Sunday: a quiz app I built for the kids, and two daft AI projects they have n…
Read issue →✈️ 30 hours to get here. Mateo spent half of them on an AI coding course.
Happy Sunday folks! Writing this from Colombia, where we landed five days ago after a 30-hour journey. We missed our connecting flight in Panama (great fun for my wife and m…
Read issue →🏀 My kids could not stop laughing at me dunking in a headband
Happy Sunday folks! I spent the afternoon testing two new AI video tools with the kids, and it turned into lots of giggles. Plus the first honest data on what parents really…
Read issue →🐿️ My 6-year-old is obsessed with squirrels. So we made one rob a Lidl.
Happy Sunday folks! I found something this week that fixes the single biggest hurdle for parents wanting to try AI with their kids. Plus two experiments I ran, one with a ho…
Read issue →🍿 Google's new AI video tool just launched. I made you a PDF with 5 family ideas.
Happy Sunday folks! Big AI launch this week from Google, plus a bedtime ritual with the kids that I have to share. In this week's email: 🍿 Gemini Omni launched. We…
Read issue →🛠️ Three things my 8-year-old built with AI this week. None of them were homework.
Happy Sunday folks! Busy week at the kitchen table. Mateo built three things with Claude in one afternoon, I published a couple of posts I've been meaning to write for…
Read issue →🎬 My first YouTube video is live. Here's what I got wrong.
Happy Sunday folks! Big milestone this week. More than 5,000 parents now visit this site every month 🤩 . Most of them come looking for honest answers about AI tools for the…
Read issue →🎬 This wasn't possible 6 months ago...
Happy Sunday folks! Quick one this week — three things from the past seven days that are worth your time. In this week’s email: 🎬 How I turned my 8-year-old’s daydream in…
Read issue →🎨 6 free things to make with ChatGPT's new image tool (I made a PDF)
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 s…
Read issue →🦄 One hand-drawn unicorn. 60 minutes. It walked off the page.
Happy Saturday folks! This was a busy week. My 6-year-old drew a unicorn after school on Tuesday. With all the buzz around Seedance 2.0 I wanted to see if I could make somet…
Read issue →🎬 19 scenes. 1 duvet. One question from my 6 year old ate my weekend.
Happy Saturday folks! This one's landing a day late. I got pulled into the most involved family project I've ever done and I didn't want to send it half-finis…
Read issue →🎨 3 prompts. 30 minutes. His kit design might actually get made into a real one.
Happy Easter weekend! Quick one this week — three things from the past seven days that are worth your time. In this week’s email: How Mateo used AI to design a competition…
Read issue →🎮 5 free word games for Easter (I built them this week)
Happy Friday folks! The kids break up for Easter holidays today. Two weeks of " I'm bored " incoming 😅. So I built something to hopefully keep them occupied…
Read issue →🤖 We ran a ChatGPT quiz in the car. It went wrong in a way I didn't expect.
Happy Friday folks! I let ChatGPT run a quiz for two 8-year-olds on a car journey last Sunday. It was going great until it wasn't. More on that below. In this week’s…
Read issue →🎨 5 things your kids can do with Google's new AI image tool (all free)
Happy Friday folks! Four things this week: a free cheat sheet for Google's newest AI tool, a free course that started a heated debate among teachers, a new head-to-head…
Read issue →🎮 10 free AI tools your kids can use today (I made a cheat sheet)
Happy Sunday folks! Busy week. A cheat sheet I'm genuinely proud of, three new blog posts, and a family project going live tomorrow. In this week’s email: The 10 free…
Read issue →🌍 My 8-year-old used AI to research an earthquake that impacted our family in Colombia today. Here's what happened.
Happy Sunday folks! Here’s what we’ve been working on. My brother-in-law video called us from Colombia today saying they were woken by an earthquake tremor this morning . Ma…
Read issue →🎵 Google's new AI music tool gave us 30 minutes of family chaos
Happy Sunday folks! Here’s what we’ve been working on. My mother-in-law flew over from Colombia last month. She brought a suitcase full of memories. Old photos. School reports…
Read issue →🎯 I built something for you this week (takes 2 minutes)
Happy Sunday! This week I built something I've been thinking about for a while. The AI Readiness Assessment Every week I get emails from parents asking the same quest…
Read issue →🇪🇸 My son understands Spanish but won't speak it. So we tried something different.
Happy Sunday folks! Here’s what we’ve been working on. Two things happened this week: I published a guide on the 7 AI skills every kid should learn in 2026 . My mother-in-law…
Read issue →📚 500 hours testing AI with my kids. Here’s what actually works.
Happy Sunday! Here’s what we’ve been working on. Over the past 18 months, I’ve tested 100+ AI tools with my kids (ages 3, 6 and 8). Every project documented. Every failure rec…
Read issue →🇮🇪 Turned a history lesson into a 10-minute podcast my 8-year-old actually enjoyed
Hi folks, Apologies for not sending the regular weekend update yesterday. Got back from Tenerife late last night after a great week where we deliberately unplugged . Beach day…
Read issue →✈️ I used AI to create a surprise reveal my kids will never forget
Happy Sunday! Here's what we've been working on. We’ve just arrived in Tenerife. When the kids woke up this morning they had no idea they were going on holiday - all…
Read issue →🤩 The AI Tool That Made My Kids Say “HOW DID YOU DO THAT?”
Happy Sunday! Here's what we've been working on. This week, I recorded a one minute video of myself sitting in my office. Then I transformed that same video into fiv…
Read issue →🎬 We turned Zootopia into 4 different movies in 90 minutes
Happy Sunday! Here's what we've been working on. " What would the Zootopia DMV scene look like in other movies? " That question from my kids led to one of…
Read issue →⚽ Our AI video hit 86K views on TikTok this week
Happy Sun Monday! Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, if celebrating it. Here's what we've been working on. 1. Launched on Social! I've been avoiding TikTok…
Read issue →🎥 We Recreated the Viral AI Celebrity Selfie Trend
Happy Sunday! Here's what we've been working on. 1. New Family Project: AI Celebrity Selfie Videos When my son saw the viral "AI celebrity selfie" trend on…
Read issue →🐠 Made a Nemo movie in 90 minutes (kids directed the whole thing)
Happy Sunday! Here's what we've been working on. 1. Family Project: We Made a Cinematic Nemo Short Film This was the highlight of the week. My kids asked if we cou…
Read issue →🤖 We turned my son's robot into a cinematic AI video
Happy Sunday! Here's what we've been working on. 1. New Family Project: Turning Mateo's Robot Into a Cinematic AI Video My 8-year-old son Mateo has a robot to…
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🍌 Nano Banana Pro for Kids + Launching Parent's Research Lab
Happy Sunday! Here's what we've been working on. 1. New Family Project: Custom AI Coloring Pages This week I wanted to give the new Nano Banana Pro 🍌 image generato…
Read issue →✨ Big week for AI Tools for Kids (and Google dropped Gemini 3!)
This has been one of the most exciting weeks since I started AI Tools for Kids. Not only did I launch a ton of new content across the site, but Google dropped Gemini 3 and Nano…
Read issue →📹 I created a 20-second animation with my daughter in 30 minutes
My 5-year-old daughter is obsessed with unicorns 🦄 She draws them constantly. Unicorns, rainbows, love hearts. All day, every day. Last week, I asked her: " What story wou…
Read issue →✨ The free AI tool that turned school anxiety into excitement
My 3-year-old was nervous about starting play school. So I used a free AI tool to create a personalized storybook starring him , his actual teacher (Niamh), and two classmates f…
Read issue →📊 My 8-year-old learned multiplication in 30 minutes (with AI)
My 8-year-old just learned multiplication grouping using an AI tutor. He hasn't even started multiplication in school yet. But after 30 minutes with Synthesis Tutor , he un…
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