RE: LeoThread 2026-03-04 13-53
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This may draw pushback, but many parents—especially in Silicon Valley and in some Asian households—are preparing children for the wrong world.
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Kids as young as 7 or 8 are packed with after-school math, extra reading, and test prep with the goal of making them “smarter.”
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With AI advancing rapidly, raw intelligence is becoming a commodity.
AI will soon do math better than top mathematicians, diagnose more accurately than leading doctors, draft contracts more cleanly than elite lawyers, and learn faster than any PhD—instantly, endlessly, and without fatigue.
All that knowledge will live in a pocket.
So raising children to win by being “the smartest in the room” trains them for skills already being automated. That approach risks wasting time, money, and effort.
The focus should instead be on willpower, passion, and loving something enough to stick with it when it’s hard. Parents’ role is to support those interests and teach persistence.
This view could be wrong, but given AI’s trajectory, the future probably won’t belong to the kid who memorized the most formulas.
The winners are likely to be kids who:
School and most after-school classes rarely teach these traits; they’re developed at home through the environment parents cultivate.
When AI can build, create, and teach instantly, intelligence alone won’t be the main edge. The advantage will come from grit, discipline, and emotional strength.
AI will be deeply woven into children’s lives—that part is unavoidable. What is avoidable is raising kids who only follow instructions, chase grades, and wait for approval.
Grades matter less than understanding what went wrong, why, and how to avoid the same mistake next time.
Kids who want something badly enough to pursue it, who aren’t afraid to fail, and who know how to leverage AI will thrive. It’s time for parents to prepare for that future, not the one previous generations grew up in.