DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20847940 For this article, I wanted to write from the perspective of a parent and caregiver, reflecting on what AI designs are emerging for families with young children and how this technology is beginning to support their needs. I didn’t expect to be this impressed by an AI toy. Indeed, I was initially rather sceptical about its reliability and secretly timed how many seconds it would take before my 7-year-old got bored and it became a very expensive d