Is vibe coding just more screen time to worry about?
The research distinction that matters is between consuming and producing. An hour spent building a tool that waters the plants is categorically different from an hour of autoplay, in what it asks of the brain and in how a child feels afterwards. Our practical advice is to judge it by output: if the screen hours leave finished things behind, they are working hours. If they leave only fatigue, treat them like any other scrolling.
Do I need to understand coding to supervise this?
No, and this whole page is built on that premise. You can verify real learning with three no-code questions: ask what the project does and watch whether the explanation is theirs, ask what broke this week and how it was found, and ask what they would build next with one more week. A child who is learning answers all three with stories. A child who is only generating cannot answer the second one at all.
Which AI accounts is my child actually allowed to have?
By the providers' own published terms: none of the mainstream ones under 13. From 13, ChatGPT with your permission through 17, and Google Gemini in most countries. Microsoft Copilot depends on where you live, 13 in the UK and US but 18 in India. Claude and Replit require 18 everywhere. We keep the full quoted list on our AI tools age guide, and our under-13 classes are built so the child needs no AI account at all.
What are the actual risks, ranked honestly?
In the order we see them cause real harm: personal information typed into prompts, which is common and preventable with one household rule; published projects containing something private, like a family photo path or a live key; dependence, where the child stops thinking at the first difficulty; and far behind those, the dramatic scenarios that dominate headlines. The first three all have boring, effective controls, and a good class installs them as habits.
My child only wants to make games. Is that a waste?
Games are the single best on-ramp we know. A game needs state, logic, input handling, scoring and the handling of a player who does something unexpected, which is to say it needs everything serious software needs, attached to motivation no worksheet can match. Every cohort contains a child who came for games and stayed for the building; we have never once seen the reverse.
How do I know a class is legitimate before paying?
Ask three questions of any provider, including us. Which accounts will my child need, in whose name, and at what published age? A provider who waves this away has not read the terms they are putting your child inside. Can I sit in on a real class before paying? The answer should simply be yes. And what will my child have made after a term? The answer should be specific things you can look at, not a certificate alone.
Are there hidden costs beyond the class fee?
For our beginner and teen tracks, no: free tiers of the tools are sufficient, and we design around their limits. Some advanced agent-tool courses genuinely require paid subscriptions to the tools themselves, and each of those course pages says so before enrolment rather than after. If any provider's answer to this question is vague, treat that as your answer.
What if my child uses this to do their homework?
Assume they have already tried, and hold two lines rather than one big fight. School work follows the school's AI rules, whatever they are, because integrity systems now catch generated work and the record is not worth it. And the projects in our classes are deliberately things no school assigns, so the temptation to launder does not arise in the room. Named this way, most teenagers keep the lines without drama.
Is a live online class with strangers safe in itself?
Our classes are live video with a named, consistent teacher, batches of five to eight, and a parent may observe any session including the free one. Recordings are not the product and sessions are not public. You will always know the teacher's name, the schedule, and what the current project is, because those are the three things we would want to know as parents.
What does it cost, and what is the commitment?
USD 100 a month for group batches, USD 150 for one to one, the same figures in every country we teach outside India. Monthly billing, no joining fee, stop at the end of any month. The free first class carries no card and no obligation, and it is a working session rather than a pitch.
How do we start if my child is asking today?
Send the form below and a mentor will call to book the free class. Sit beside your child for it, use the ten-minute monthly check from this page from month one, and decide at your own pace afterwards. If our class is not the right fit, the age table and the safety rules on this page still work with whatever you choose instead.
