Welcome & the Three Ground Rules
I'm glad you're here. Let's jump right in.
This course teaches you how to use AI as a practical daily assistant for the logistics of motherhood. No coding. No jargon. No tests. By the end you'll walk out with a real system you actually use, not a folder of theory.
Phase 1 is your setup arc. In the next five short lessons, you will sign up for Claude, install the app on your phone, turn on voice mode, and have your first three useful conversations.
What you need handy
- A computer or tablet for signing up (5 minutes)
- Your phone (for the app install)
- An email address you use regularly
A heads-up about cost, before we start.
We'll use Claude throughout the course. The skills transfer to ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, and Grok — but Claude is what we're teaching against, and most lessons assume you're using it.
Claude's tiers.
- Free — enough to start. You'll get through chat, prompting basics, and your first custom Projects on it. Heads up: free-plan usage limits are lower than you'd think, and once you start chatting with Claude regularly, you'll bump into "you've hit your limit, try again later."
- Pro — $20/month — much higher usage limits, and required for Cowork, the feature that lets Claude actually organize your files, automate routines, and work with apps on your computer. Without Pro, you'll miss the part that genuinely changes day-to-day mom life.
You don't need Pro to start, but much of the course requires it in order to really put AI to work for you. And if you already know you're going to upgrade, doing it now means you won't hit a usage wall mid-lesson.
The three ground rules
Memorize these. They'll keep you out of trouble and help you get dramatically better results.
Type like you text.
You don't need perfect wording. Incomplete sentences are fine. Typos are fine. Talk to Claude the way you'd text a smart friend. Short, direct, messy is better than formal and careful.
Double-check anything that matters.
Claude can be confidently wrong. If it's about money, health, legal stuff, dosages, dates, or facts you're about to quote — verify with your own eyes. Everything else (recipes, plans, drafts, ideas) — use and edit.
Don't paste anything you wouldn't say in public.
No Social Security numbers, full credit card numbers, passwords, or medical record numbers. First names and kids' ages are fine. When in doubt, use initials. More detail on the next screen.
Privacy at a glance
Most privacy questions come down to this chart. Save a screenshot of it or bookmark this page.
🟢 Fine to share
- First names
- Kids' ages
- Schedules & routines
- Food preferences
- Opinions & writing voice
- General location (city)
🟡 Pause first
- Full legal names
- Home address
- Employer
- Photos of faces
- Specific financial amounts
- Other people's private info
🔴 Never
- Social Security numbers
- Credit/bank numbers
- Passwords
- Medical record numbers
- School IDs & logins
One setting we'll turn off in the next lesson
By default, some AI tools use your conversations to train future models. That doesn't mean a human reads them, but if you want extra privacy, there's a toggle in Claude's settings we'll flip in the signup walkthrough.
Up next
Sign up for Claude. Takes 5 minutes. Nothing to memorize, just follow the steps.
Continue to Sign Up for Claude →