Minds of Tomorrow

Author: Jay Stifflemire

Book Description

Minds of Tomorrow: Raising AI-Native Kids - A Parent's Playbook for the AI Age

Your six-year-old asks Siri about death instead of you. Your ten-year-old’s best friend is an AI chatbot. Your teenager uses ChatGPT for homework while you’re still figuring out how it works.

Welcome to parenting in the AI age, where the rules change while you're making dinner.

Jay Stifflemire doesn’t have a PhD in child psychology or AI development. He’s a father of three young kids, a former military aviation maintenance administrator, and now a Senior IT project manager. What he does have is live experience—like the moment he realized his son trusted Siri more than Dad. That painful realization inspired this book and the journey to reclaim human connection in an algorithmic world.

Minds of Tomorrow isn’t another screen-time lecture or tech-panic manifesto. It’s a practical playbook from the parenting trenches, combining real family struggles with actionable strategies for raising kids who can partner with AI without losing their humanity. From managing the iPad meltdown at age four to navigating ChatGPT homework at twelve to preparing for AI-dominated careers at twenty, this book covers the journey with brutal honesty and tested solutions.

No perfection. No judgment. Just one family’s messy, imperfect path and a practical playbook, to help parents everywhere face the biggest parenting challenge in human history.

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Coming January 2026

The algorithm is already raising our kids. Time to take back control.

Every day you wait, AI improves at capturing your child’s attention and reshaping their values, while quietly replacing human connection.

Minds of Tomorrow gives you the tools to take back control, starting tonight at your dinner table.

Inside, you’ll discover:

Why ages 1–7 may be your secret weapon against AI dependency
The three-word phrase that reshapes how kids see ChatGPT
How “weird” becomes your child’s superpower in an AI-driven economy
The Friday night test that reveals whether screens own your family

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Key Reader Outcomes

After reading this book, you will:

Know precisely when AI helps, and when it harms, your child’s development.
Use ready-to-go conversation guides for the AI talks you’ve been avoiding.
Understand why your screen-time rules aren’t working, and what works instead.
Create a Family AI Constitution that actually sticks.
Stop wasting energy on unwinnable fights and focus on what matters most.
Build your child’s human premium, the uniquely human skills AI can’t replicate.
Turn dinner from a stress point into a daily ritual of connection.
Navigate homework challenges when ChatGPT seems to do it better.
Prepare your kids for jobs that don’t even exist yet.
Feel confident guiding your kids through AI, rather than shielding them from it.

Book Details

Formats: Available in Paperback, Hardcover, and eBook
Length: Approx. 250 pages
ISBNs:

- Paperback: 979-8-9988940-2-2

- Hardcover: 979-8-9988940-5-3

- eBook: 979-8-9988940-8-4

Publisher: JLS Publishers
Category: Trade Nonfiction | Technology / Artificial Intelligence / Society
Publication Date: est. January 2026
Retail Price: $17.99 paperback, $26.99 hardcover, $2.99 eBook

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Your kid's future is being written in code. Time to add some humanity to the algorithm.

Read Chapter 1 for free and discover why a Tuesday night, when six-year-old Liam asked Alexa about death, changed everything for the Stifflemire family and why it matters for yours.

In just the first chapter, you’ll learn:

Why boredom is your child’s hidden superpower.
The 10-minute test that shows if AI is running your household.
What parenting looks like when military IT experience meets toddler tantrums.
The Ukrainian grandmother’s secret to raising resilient, analog-minded kids.

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About the Author

Jay Stifflemire

Jay Stifflemire is the author of the Minds of Tomorrow series, a five-book exploration of how parents can raise grounded, capable, and fully human children in an age of artificial intelligence. The series was born the night Jay realized his six-year-old trusted Alexa more than Dad—a moment that crystallized a question many families are quietly asking: how do we raise children with meaning, agency, and character when machines can answer everything?

Spanning the arc from today’s AI-assisted childhood to a future shaped by increasingly intelligent systems, the Minds of Tomorrow series maps a practical, human-first approach to parenting in the AI age. Each book addresses a distinct stage of technological change—moving from raising AI-native kids, to navigating advanced machine intelligence, to protecting what makes us human as technology grows more capable. The series is not anti-technology, nor is it speculative futurism. It is grounded, applied, and written for families living this reality now.

A retired U.S. Navy veteran with two decades of experience managing military and enterprise IT systems, Jay has spent his career designing, securing, and deploying complex technologies at scale. That background gives him a rare vantage point: he understands how intelligent systems are built, optimized, and incentivized—and how those same systems shape human behavior when they enter everyday life. He brings that strategic lens home, where the consequences of technology are no longer abstract but personal.

Jay lives in Texas with his wife, Liliya, and their three children, where the AI age begins each morning not in theory, but in practice—often before breakfast. Through the Minds of Tomorrow series, he writes from the intersection of systems thinking, child development, and lived family experience, with a single mission: helping parents raise children who can use intelligent machines without being shaped by them.

Primary Genre: Trade Nonfiction / Parenting & Family / Technology & Society