{"id":20317,"date":"2025-10-02T12:37:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T10:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/02\/my-son-genuinely-believed-it-was-real-parents-are-letting-little-kids-play-with-ai-are-they-wrong\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T12:37:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T10:37:16","slug":"my-son-genuinely-believed-it-was-real-parents-are-letting-little-kids-play-with-ai-are-they-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/02\/my-son-genuinely-believed-it-was-real-parents-are-letting-little-kids-play-with-ai-are-they-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My son genuinely believed it was real\u2019: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some believe AI can spark their child\u2019s imagination through personalized stories and generative images. Scientists are wary of its affect on creativity<\/p>\n<p>Josh was at the end of his rope when he turned to ChatGPT for help with a parenting quandary. The 40-year-old father of two had been listening to his \u201csuper loquacious\u201d four-year-old talk about Thomas the Tank Engine for 45 minutes, and he was feeling overwhelmed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was not done telling the story that he wanted to tell, and I needed to do my chores, so I let him have the phone,\u201d recalled Josh, who lives in north-west Ohio. \u201cI thought he would finish the story and the phone would turn off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2025\/oct\/02\/ai-children-parenting-creativity\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/768d206146ff6b9801c01b99329e7bcc37a02a04\/0_446_2240_1792\/master\/2240.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=273f868e1ba4bffd2d2f9dee0a601f76\" title=\"\u2018My son genuinely believed it was real\u2019: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong?\" \/>Some believe AI can spark their child\u2019s imagination through personalized stories and generative images. Scientists are wary of its affect on creativity<br \/>\nJosh was at the end of his rope when he turned to ChatGPT for help with a parenting quandary. The 40-year-old father of two had been listening to his \u201csuper loquacious\u201d four-year-old talk about Thomas the Tank Engine for 45 minutes, and he was feeling overwhelmed.<br \/>\n\u201cHe was not done telling the story that he wanted to tell, and I needed to do my chores, so I let him have the phone,\u201d recalled Josh, who lives in north-west Ohio. \u201cI thought he would finish the story and the phone would turn off.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some believe AI can spark their child\u2019s imagination through personalized stories and generative images. Scientists are wary of its affect on creativity Josh was at the end of his rope when he turned to ChatGPT for help with a parenting quandary. The 40-year-old father of two had been listening to his \u201csuper loquacious\u201d four-year-old talk &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/02\/my-son-genuinely-believed-it-was-real-parents-are-letting-little-kids-play-with-ai-are-they-wrong\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018My son genuinely believed it was real\u2019: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20317"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}