When the old rules don’t work anymore, what do we promise our children?

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The world is changing faster than anyone expected.

You’ve already seen it: the neighbor who was part of the layoffs at his tech company, the nephew who graduated in computer science a year ago and still hasn’t found a job.

The path we thought was safe is collapsing. Good grades and a good college used to mean a good job, and that’s no longer a given.

School keeps teaching our kids as if nothing has changed, and you already know that can’t be enough.

What has always set the sharpest people apart, and will matter even more for our children, is what they do before and after the answer. It’s a whole discipline of thinking, from framing the right problem to questioning assumptions to staying with what’s hard.

Demis Hassabis, the Nobel Prize winner and head of Google DeepMind, says the most needed skill for the next generation will be “learning to learn.”

The future doesn’t care what your child can repeat - it cares how they think.

Knowing facts is no longer enough. To navigate the world ahead, our kids will need different thinking habits, like problem framing, assumption testing and first-principles thinking. They sit outside the traditional school curriculum, and our learning plans build them through short problems taken from real life, until your child uses them on their own.

Plans are adapted to your child’s age and have a clear start and finish, so you always know what your child is working on and when they’ve got the other kind of smart.

Will my child learn to use AI?

No, and that’s deliberate. Every child will grow up with the same AI tools, and any of them can learn the newest one in days. What will separate the ones who thrive from the ones who don’t are their core thinking habits. Studies of people working with AI show the same pattern: with identical tools, some do far better and others do worse. Those habits are what we build.

6–12

Research shows that the years from six to twelve are when children form the thinking habits they carry into adulthood: whether they ask why or wait to be told, whether they look for what’s true or for what the adult wants to hear, whether they stick with something hard or drop it. Those habits are far easier to build now than to change later, and these years go by faster than any parent expects.

Designed by engineers and parents, backed by research.

Every plan draws on decades of research into how children learn to think, and on what leading experts expect the years ahead to demand.

Questions

What ages is it for?
Plans are adapted to your child’s age. Current plans are for children 6 to 12, the years when thinking habits take shape and are easiest to build, so if your child is younger or older, it isn’t the right fit yet.
My child struggles at school. Is this for them?
School mostly measures how well a child remembers and follows procedures, and a child who finds that hard can start to believe they aren’t smart. But that’s only one kind of smart. Asking good questions, seeing a problem from a new angle and doubting the obvious answer are the other kind, and a child who struggles with one can be strong at the other.
What do you collect about my child?
Nothing. We ask for your email address and nothing else.

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