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How to effectively Parent your children in the age of artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is designed to assist us in making our lives more convenient so we can experience life to its fullest. However, AI cannot teach us human values and ethics. Despite this, AI is now winning the hearts of people and soon it will start affecting how we raise our children.
As a parent, you are constantly worried because it is impossible to be with your child all the time. You are worried whether the child has been exposed too much to the world or too little to the world. It’s a never-ending cycle of worry, love, happiness, joy, pain, and confusion for all the right reasons.
At times, it is difficult to connect with your child or children due to work schedules. And when you try to connect, you will get answers such as its Okay Ma and when you ask the baby, what is wrong with you? The child answers by saying nothing
Then you turn to a site like Unesco.org for early childhood care and education, after reading and you find out you still have limited time with your children at home. You then proceed to site like iCarella to get the best childcare from professionals. But these sites are not enough, you have Muse parenting app too!
This is indeed the age of artificial intelligence. Take, for example, Siri is an application that recognized and perform any task assigned to it on a phone.
Artificial Intelligence Machines Bridging the Gap in Parenting
Whether you believe it or not, artificial intelligence that is once futuristic is happening right now. AI is now compatible with most of what we do. Some apps are already infused with artificial intelligence to bridge the gap and we may not realize it.
Programmers and researchers alike are tirelessly working on closing the gap between parenting in the old fashion way and the modern-AI. Safe Lagoon a parental Control with advanced AI application that monitors and protects children, pre-teens and teens safe online 24/7.
How Can Parents Explain Artificial Intelligence to their Children and Help them Learn?
Children at school are gradually exposed to artificial intelligence and machine learning. This is done to introduce the child into the world of artificial intelligence. It will help the child to learn fast at a tender age. Some of the children may be curious at home about what they have learned in school. Therefore, parents need to be up to date in the world of artificial intelligence.
Fortunately, parents can use this avenue to explain the simplicity of artificial intelligence to their children and how it can become useful in the future. Once the child understands the basics of artificial intelligence, you as the parent can pick any of the below-listed games to test the child ability.
Pika
This is a camera app that takes your kids on a colorful scavenger hunt. Your kids are going to love this application. Please awaits my review of the application coming soon.
Kano Computing
Parents are always worried about what their children learn in school. Kano Computing is a great site where our kids can begin machine learning. What makes it great is your child can start Machine learning by
Telling the computer to fetch some files
Allowing the program fetched by the computer to install
Make your computer to create its own art
Machine learning is not just limited to kids or parents, both parties in the family can explore machine learning at the same time.
What You are About to Learn
What is parenting?
Evolution of parenthood
Are parents too busy or too modern?
Technology or traditional norms
Building a healthy future
On a final note
Parenting is a challenging task, even in the best circumstances. Parents are constantly at war with balancing life expectations for their children and work. With complexity in modern day life of parents, it is close to impossible to know how to parent your children effectively and keep with the expectations of life. Therefore, the parent has to seek the help of artificial intelligence in parenting effectively his/her child.
