Your baby’s brain is a hard drive, and you have about five years to build it. Everything after that is more like a software update. That single idea from Dr. Dana Suskind rewired how I think about raising kids in the age of AI. Dana is a pediatric cochlear implant surgeon (yes, one of the very few people I would let open up my head), and her new book, Human Raised, is the smartest thing I have read on children and technology. A few things that stuck with me: -It was never about Harvard. In the age of AI, the skills that matter are the human ones a machine cannot fake: connection, curiosity, adaptability, and judgment. -A child hears roughly 30 million words in their first three years, and those words build the ability to connect, not just a vocabulary. No gadget can shortcut that. -Tech quietly sets three traps for parents: the default trap, the pressure trap, and the design trap. About 90 percent of us never change the autoplay, and that is not an accident. -Friction is the feature,...