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Module 7 of 8  ·  9 min

The Household AI Agreement

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What you will learn

  • Write a short set of rules your child helped make.
  • Put the rules somewhere everyone can see them.
  • Make the agreement a living thing you revisit as your child grows.

Rules a child helped write are rules a child keeps. This module turns everything so far into one short agreement your family actually uses.

Draft it together

Sit down as a family and agree a short list. Here is a starter set that works in most homes. Cross out what does not fit yours and add what does. The point is not the exact words. It is that your child had a hand in them.

  • AI lives in the open. We use it on shared devices in shared spaces.
  • We never tell it who we are. No name, school, address, photo, or phone number.
  • We check before we trust. If it matters, we confirm with a real source or a real adult.
  • It helps us think, it does not think for us. AI can check and explain. It does not do the work we are meant to learn from.
  • People come first. A chatbot is not a friend. For anything that is bothering us, we talk to a person we trust.
  • We tell a grown-up if it gets weird, and no one is in trouble for asking.

    • Try this

    Write your agreement on one sheet, have every family member sign it, including the adults, and stick it where the shared device lives. Signing matters. It turns a rule into a promise everyone made together.

    Keep it alive

    An agreement written once and forgotten is just paper. Revisit it when your child moves up an age band, when a new tool enters the house, or when something happens that the rules did not cover. A living agreement grows with your child. A fixed one falls behind them.

    What the research says

    Common Sense Media recommends family media agreements as a practical tool for setting shared expectations, and the household approach mirrors how the school frameworks turn principles into plain, agreed guidance.

    • AI and families research (Common Sense Media)
    • TeachAI: AI Guidance for Schools Toolkit (TeachAI (Code.org, ETS, ISTE, Khan Academy, World Economic Forum))

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