A parent's field guide to what AI is really doing to how young people think, learn, and develop. And what to say at your kitchen table before it gets any harder.
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Before writing this book, I scored every state's public AI education guidance against a 7-criterion rubric. The results are the reason this book exists.
Your child used AI on their homework last night. Their school almost certainly has no framework for it. And almost nobody is asking the question that matters most. What should students still do themselves before they turn to AI?
This book is the answer. Direct, research-backed, and written by someone who has spent two decades sitting across from the students whose lives are being shaped by these choices.
If your family hasn't had this conversation yet, now is the moment. The book gives you the language, the research, and the scripts.
Short chapters, a Family AI Agreement template, and word-for-word scripts for the conversations that matter.
The two-phone workaround. The resource-room exploit. The virtual-school automation. And why homework grades now mean less than you think.
What MIT researchers found it does to the developing brain. Why this is not like a calculator, a Google search, or Wikipedia. Plain-English neuroscience for parents.
The perfect essay. The college application shortcut. The parent who checked the browser history. What actually happened next, and the pattern behind every one.
Calculator mode vs. ghostwriter mode. The Family AI Agreement template you can print tonight. Scripts for the talk that changes the trajectory.
Five concrete things you can do right now. Red flags to watch for. What to say to teachers. How to hold the line without destroying trust.
What AI cannot replace. How to build a home that protects your child's capacity to struggle, recover, and become someone real.
The real crisis is not that AI is doing the work. The real crisis is that our children are forgetting how to.
From The Effort Crisis
Kevin did his graduate work in neuroscience and has spent two decades inside the homes and schools where this crisis is happening. He collaborated with psychiatrist Dr. David Rosenberg of Children's Hospital of Michigan on a program featured on ABC's 20/20, examining the mental health and brain differences in screen-addicted youth.
His 2010 book Cyber Junkie addressed screen addiction before it became a mainstream public health conversation. The Effort Crisis is his seventh book. He is the co-founder of The AI Edge and the researcher behind America's AI Report Card, the first comprehensive scoring of state AI education policies.
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The Effort Crisis is available now in paperback. The free download above is the parent field guide. The full book includes the complete research, all case studies, and the AI Report Card data.
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