My Daughter Is Learning to Communicate Through AI
I'm letting my daughter use AI tools to learn to communicate her ideas clearly and express her creativity. This is how I'm doing it:
This is potentially a controversial post, but I feel like this little bubble of Twitter is much more receptive to what I am about to say.
My oldest daughter is 7, and she's extremely curious and creative.
She loves to read. She loves to learn, and she loves looking over my shoulder at the work that I do.
Recently, she's been really curious about what I'm doing with Claude and Codex and has wanted to do It as well.
We're getting there, but the first step that I'm teaching her is to be able to communicate and verbalize her ideas clearly and concisely using her own voice.
She's not doing it unsupervised. I'm there in the room the whole time, and she's able to ask me questions.
We talk back and forth, brainstorming ideas before she's ready to talk into my phone.
What this is teaching her is how to take the messy, wild, tangled thoughts in her head and clearly and concisely communicate them using her voice so that she can see the idea take life.
I'll tell you what, it has been a major eye opener for her!
I think a lot of parents might be scared about letting their kids use their phone, or further, letting them use AI... Which I totally understand. She's not getting a phone or laptop or anything right now...
BUT, a couple points to note:
1) What I'm teaching her isn't AI, it's communication and it just so happens to be with AI.
How many adults do you know that can't express an idea if their life depended on it... The better we get at communicating an idea, the easier it is to tackle BIGGER ideas.
2) Conceptualizing what's possible in 2026 (and beyond) is VERY valuable. Simply having this experience where she can see her idea appear right in front of her opens her eyes to what she is capable of.
Instead of "dang I can't draw what I'm thinking about"
it's "I'm going to get this idea out of my head right now and start doing thing with it."
It's awesome to see what she's thinking and watch the excitement she has when the build is finished.
