About
I'm Colleen — mom, professional, and the founder of AI for Curious Kids.
I live in North Carolina with my husband Ian and our two sons, Jackson (8) and Austin (6). We use AI together regularly — as a way to expand what they're already making, thinking, and creating. Not as a shortcut. As something in between the idea and the finished thing.
I've spent my career leading marketing teams at large, matrixed organizations — helping people navigate change, adopt new technologies, and build skills for fast-moving environments.
As AI has become an increasingly central part of my professional life, I started asking different questions at home. What does intentional AI use actually look like for kids? How do I make sure they're equipped to use it well , not just use it? That's the premise of AI for Curious Kids. The expertise I use at work, translated for parents.
Equip families to guide kids in using AI intentionally, building creativity, adaptability, and resilience for a future where AI collaboration is normal.
Mission
The framework
Every activity on this site follows the same sequence: your kid's idea comes first, AI helps execute it, and then something real gets made and used. It has to happen in that order.
Kids = creative directors. Parents = facilitators. AI = tool in the middle. Never the beginning, never the end.
These activities aren't just about AI. They build the skills kids need for any future: creativity, critical thinking, adaptability, collaboration, and the confidence to direct technology rather than be directed by it.
I call it the Idea → AI → Play™ framework.
