Set Up Your Kid Project | AI for Real Life

One Project per kid, or one shared Kids Project?

This module covers everything kid-related — homework help, full lessons on any topic, interactive learning artifacts your kid can tap through, worksheet generation, and chores. All of it runs through Project(s) you build today.

First decision: do you want one Project per kid, or one shared Kids Project? Both work. The right answer depends on your family.

One Project per kid

A separate Project for each kid — "Aiden," "Mia," "Liam." Each Project knows that specific kid: grade level, school, teacher, learning style, friends, what they struggle with.

This works best when your kids have meaningfully different ages, schools, activities, or needs. The cool-win lessons later in this module (full lessons on any topic, interactive learning artifacts) tailor their output to whichever kid's Project they run in, so per-kid Projects produce more on-target results.

One shared Kids Project

A single "Kid Life" Project that handles all your kids together. Inside it, you'd ask Cowork to set up a subfolder per kid (Aiden/, Mia/, Liam/) so files stay organized. When you're working on one kid specifically, you tell Cowork ("I'm on Mia's stuff today") and it scopes to that subfolder.

This works best when your kids are close in age, overlap a lot (same school, similar activities), or you have several kids and don't want a Project for each. Less to maintain. Slightly less tailored.

You can change your mind later. Start with whichever feels right. If you build a shared Kid Life Project and decide a year in that one specific kid needs their own Project, tell Cowork to split it out — Cowork will move the kid-specific files into a new Project and update what's left.

Create the Project (or Projects).

Same pattern as building Family Manager back in Phase 2 — this is one of the few moments where you click through the Cowork UI instead of telling Cowork to do it for you, because creating the Project shell itself is a UI-only step.

Open Claude Desktop, click the Cowork tab, then Projects in the left sidebar
Click the + button to start a new Project.
Pick "Start from scratch"
Same as your Family Manager build.
Name it
For per-kid Projects: use the kid's first name (Aiden, Mia, Liam). For a shared Project: use "Kid Life."
Set the save location to ~/Documents/Claude/Projects/[Project Name]/
Standard folder pattern from Where Your Stuff Lives.
Skip the instructions and files for now
We add those by tell-Cowork in the next screen.
Click Create
Repeat for each kid if you went per-kid. You'll end up with one or more new Cowork Projects, each connected to its own folder.

If you went with a shared Kid Life Project, set up subfolders now.

Inside the new Project, tell Cowork:

Set up kid subfolders

Inside this Project's folder, create a subfolder for each of my kids — [Aiden, Mia, Liam]. From now on, when I tell you I'm working on a specific kid, default to that kid's subfolder unless I say otherwise.

Build the kid factsheet.

Same interview pattern you used for the Family Factsheet and Mom Profile back in Phase 2 — but focused on one kid (or on multiple kids if you went with the shared Project). The kid factsheet is the reference doc Cowork reads at the start of every conversation in this Project.

If you have per-kid Projects, run this inside each kid's Project:

Sample — per-kid factsheet

Build me a Kid Factsheet for this Project. Interview me one section at a time about [kid's name]. Cover: age and grade; school and teacher(s); learning style and strengths; subjects she struggles with; current activities, sports, and clubs; close friends and any friend-group context; allergies, sensory or learning needs, or medical specifics worth knowing; her interests and what motivates her right now; anything else that'd help you tailor lessons or homework help to her specifically. Ask one section at a time. At the end, save the result as Kid-Factsheet.md in this Project's folder.

If you went with the shared Kid Life Project, do one factsheet per kid, saved inside that kid's subfolder:

Sample — multiple kid factsheets (shared Project)

Build me a Kid Factsheet for each of my kids — [Aiden, Mia, Liam]. Do them one kid at a time. For each one, interview me through the same sections: age and grade; school and teacher; learning style; subjects they struggle with; activities and sports; friends; allergies and any special needs; current interests; anything else worth knowing. Save each as Kid-Factsheet.md inside that kid's subfolder.

Keep it loose, update as you go.

Same rule as the Pantry Inventory and Family Factsheet — don't try to make it perfect. Get the basics down today. Tell Cowork to update the factsheet any time something changes: "Add to Aiden's factsheet that he's started playing chess after school on Tuesdays," or "Update Mia's factsheet — she's switched from violin to piano."

What's coming in the rest of the module.

Project(s) are set up, factsheets are loaded. The rest of the module uses these foundations.

The five lessons ahead

Homework Help — explaining concepts and walking through problems at your kid's level, without you having to be the expert
Build a Full Lesson on Any Topic — Cowork generates a complete lesson on whatever your kid is learning (or about to learn). Explanations, examples, practice problems, optional quiz. Works for school topics, homeschool topics, sick-day catchup, summer enrichment.
Interactive Learning Artifacts — Cowork builds a clickable HTML thing your kid can tap through (parts of a cell, multiplication facts, state capitals, anything). Deploy it to Netlify so your kid bookmarks one URL and uses it on her tablet.
Worksheet Generation — printable worksheets tailored to what your kid is working on right now
Chores & Allowance — chore charts per kid, allowance tracking, age-appropriate task lists

Next: Homework Help.

The everyday one. Your kid brings home math homework on a topic you haven't thought about in twenty years — Cowork explains it at her level so you can be the parent in the room, not the tutor scrambling to remember.

Continue to Homework Help →