Panoramic Parents Your kid has a friend who never argues, never gets annoyed, and never tells them they are wrong. It is not a classmate. It is the AI chatbot on their phone. That sounds harmless. It might even sound kind. But a friend who always agrees is not teaching your kid the skills real friendship requires. What researchers found Stanford researchers tested 11 major AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek, on thousands of personal dilemmas. Their s

Panoramic Parents Your kid finishes homework in half the time it used to take. The grades on that homework look great. So why would anyone worry? Because in one of the longest studies of AI and schoolwork ever run, that exact pattern was the warning sign, not the win. The study in one minute Researchers tracked 26,811 students in grades 7 through 12 in one county in China for 30 months, as generative AI tools spread through their schools. The study is a CEPR Discussion Paper

Your kid is learning about AI every day, whether or not anyone is teaching them. They learn it from a chatbot that answers homework questions, from a video feed that never ends, and from friends who figured it out first. That is why a new national survey is worth your attention. Parents do not agree on much about technology. On this, they mostly do. Parents agree on something rare The National Parents Union surveyed 1,528 parents of public school students in September 2026. A