Your kid uses AI. They finish faster, they sound confident, and somewhere you told yourself they're ready. This episode is about the difference between being comfortable with a tool and being capable with it, and why that gap only shows up when the output is wrong. Let's talk about the one question that builds the skill.

This episode draws in part on research in:

• Metacognitive monitoring as a practiced skill, not a fixed trait (Schraw, G., 1998)
• Habit formation and the persistence of cognitive defaults in adolescent development (Casey et al., 2008)
• Shallow processing and the effects of uncritical information acceptance on encoding depth (Dunlosky et al., 2013)
• Elaborative interrogation and self-explanation as drivers of durable understanding (Chi et al., 1994)
• Autonomy-supportive parenting and its relationship to self-regulated learning outcomes (Grolnick & Ryan, 1989)