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Thirteen is the age ChatGPT's rules finally let a child have their own account (with a parent's permission), and since August 2026 that account looks different from an adult's. OpenAI's ChatGPT for...

Gemini is the AI a lot of school-age kids have access to whether or not their family chose it, because it's inside Chromebooks, Google Classroom and the Google account their school gave them. Since...

Seven is the year the keyboard changes hands. A 7-year-old can read a short answer on their own, peck out a sentence with one finger, and — this is the important part — has opinions about what the...

Eight is the age of chapter books, times tables, strong opinions about fairness, and the first real "but *why*?" that you can't answer off the top of your head. It's also the age when a child can t...

A 5-year-old can't read the screen, can't type, and won't sit through a paragraph. So the usual "copy-paste prompts for kids" advice mostly doesn't apply. What does work at this age is voice: you h...

Gemini has two homes for a skill, and they're different enough that a "Gemini skills" article is usually about one of them and vague about the other. In the Gemini app the reusable thing is a Gem: a n

A skill is not a long prompt. It's a folder: a file called `SKILL.md` that tells the AI what to do and when, plus the reference files it should read while doing it. The AI sees only the skill's name a

A dark joke and a disclosure look identical in a chat window and need opposite responses. Three levels, what each looks like, and what to do in the first hour.

Four doors the AI comes through on a first phone — the assistant, the store, the browser, the keyboard — who holds each key, and the one sheet to write down before it goes in their pocket.

GPT-6 Astra obscures part of its chain of thought. The advice that no longer carries weight, the three habits that get stronger, and the one-sentence version.

OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on 4 September 2026. The published facts, the one change that matters for children, and what nobody can honestly claim yet.

Most household AI rules are written for a calm evening and needed at 9pm. The three ways they die, and the three properties a rule needs to survive a deadline.