In college, I majored in human development and family studies before going on to get my Master’s degree in clinical social work. Through my formal education I did a lot of reading and learning about chid development and parenting. I then went on to have 3 kids of my own and continued my efforts to constantly educate myself on parenting theories, philosophies and strategies. All that to say- I have read a lot of books and done a lot of research on parenting. But the most helpful advice and...

AI is doing everything. It even tried to write this blog post for me. I didn't want my post written for me. And I don't want AI doing therapy for me either- and neither should you. What I did want AI to do was give me some data on how many people are using chatbots/AI for therapy. So I asked Claude and here is what Claude "said": Usage Rates A survey found that 48.7% of people who both use AI and have self-reported mental health challenges are using large language models like ChatGPT, Claude,...