Every life stage has work to do and a distance that can be calculated.

Your Filter, Not Your Child’s Tutor

Hand over the parent’s clerical load; keep the child’s practice, errors and choices with the child.

Distress→Need→Delegation tests→Desire→Gap→Path

1Distress · What Would They Say

I spend my evenings re-typing the wrong-answer notebook.

There are forty camps within twenty kilometres and I cannot compare them.

Homework starts at 8pm every night because I am the alarm.

If I hand this to AI, is my child even learning anything?

2Real Need · How to Verify

The test is not “can an agent do it.” The test is whether delegating removes your clerical repetition or removes your child’s struggle — and those look identical from the outside.

Verification signals (two or more and the need is real):
　· The task is repetition of something your child already did by hand
　· You can check the output against the original notebook in minutes
　· Nothing in the output explains, judges or decides on the child’s behalf

3Principle · What Is Actually Happening

Task decomposability + accountability

A task can be split only where each step has a named input, a named output and an acceptance check. Re-typing a notebook splits cleanly: the input is the page, the output is a typed list, the check is a visual comparison. Explaining why an answer is wrong does not split, because the output is a change in the child, not on a page.

This is why the same tool can be useful to the parent and harmful to the child in the same evening.

4Three Tests · Before You Hand Anything Over

Basis taken from the cell framework. All three must pass; a failed test is a stop, not a warning.

Can I hand the sorting and re-typing of my child's wrong-answer notebook to an agent?

Basis: Verification cost economics

The agent's output is a list or table you can check against the original notebook in under 5 minutes per week.
The agent only transcribes and groups by topic; it does not write explanations or answers.
You spot-check 3 entries per week against the paper notebook and find no factual change.

If checking takes longer than re-typing, keep the paper notebook and skip the agent.

Can I hand the search for extracurricular activity information (classes, camps, open days) to an agent?

Basis: Principal-agent cost

Every option the agent returns carries a source link you can open and a date within the last 6 months.
The agent returns at most 5 options per request, each with price, location and schedule stated.
You call or visit 1 of the 5 before any booking, and the details match the agent's summary.

If sources are missing or stale, use the agent only to draft search keywords, not to recommend.

Can I hand the daily schedule and routine reminders (homework start, bedtime, class times) to an agent?

Basis: Accountability

The reminder is a fixed-time alert; it does not decide whether the child has finished, and no consequence is attached automatically.
The child can see and edit the reminder list themselves at least once a week.
For 2 consecutive weeks, you review together whether the reminders matched what actually happened, and adjust.

If the agent starts enforcing or judging, switch to a plain alarm the child controls.

5Desire · What Does It Look Like

My evenings stop being data entry

The child does the correction, not the machine

I know which activity is worth a visit before we pay

6Gap · How to Judge

What to look at

Hours per week on school admin · wrong answers actually reviewed by the child · reminders missed

How to judge

After the agent’s output, did the child still do the correction by hand?

Healthy state

≥80% of admin automated · 100% of corrections done by the child · zero reminders missed

7Gap · Divided into Three Levels

MildTyping and sorting → automate

ModerateSearch and comparison → automate, visit before choosing

SevereThe agent is doing the practice → stop, it removes the learning

8Common Misconceptions · Wrong Paths

Let the agent explain the wrong answer and hand it over as-is —— the correction is the learning

Automate the child’s practice —— the struggle is the point, not the friction to be removed

Let a comparison table pick the camp —— the visit is the evidence, the table is only the shortlist

Trust a summary of what the child studied —— summaries hide what was skipped

9The Right Path

List what you did for school this week and mark each item: repetition or judgement

Automate only the repetition, with your child able to check the output

Keep every explanation of an error with the child, in person

Let the agent tabulate options with links; decide after one visit

Re-test monthly: anything the child can now do alone stops being delegated

This page does not collect a child’s data and asks for none. It is about where the boundary sits, not about building a profile.

Theoretical basis: Verification cost economics · Principal–agent cost · Accountability
Limitations: this is a judgement framework, not financial, medical or legal advice. Where a licensed professional is required, the agent can prepare and cannot decide.

AI Agents line · 7-12 · one of 100 cells