“We noticed an Afterkind event in a hotel lobby. We did not register there; I researched it after returning home and spoke with my son before we began. Several weeks later, something in a parent report prompted a conversation in which I learned he was being teased at school. Afterkind did not solve everything, but it helped begin a conversation we had not managed to begin ourselves.”
“My daughter found Afterkind first. I was initially more cautious about the AI than she was. We read the information together and agreed some rules. She does not use it daily, only after a difficult day at school or when she needs to organise her thoughts.”
“Although they are twins, their personalities are completely different. One barely uses it; the other opens it several times a week. That is fine. Children raised in the same home do not always need support in the same way.”
“My son was under examination pressure. This is not a story about his grades suddenly improving. Having somewhere to put his feelings into words simply reduced some of the conflict at home.”
What parents around the world told us.
“My daughter has many friends and is considered outgoing at school, so I did not imagine she sometimes felt lonely. I learned that having many friends and being able to speak honestly are different things.”
“A report suggested that my son was struggling to find his place in a new class. Instead of interrogating him, I took him for ramen. He brought up school himself.”
“Since our divorce, my daughter divides her time between two homes. With Afterkind, she can talk without feeling she must take either parent's side. That is what matters most.”
“The reports give me a general sense of how my son is doing, so I stopped asking, 'Was everything all right?' every evening. It changed my behaviour as a parent as well as helping him.”
“We allowed our daughter to decide. We told her she did not have to use it, and several days later she came back and said she would like to try.”
“I initially dismissed an argument with an online friend as 'an internet issue.' To my son, that friendship was entirely real. I have stopped assuming something is unimportant merely because I do not understand it.”
“My daughter did not suddenly begin telling me everything. She did learn to say, 'I am irritated, but it is not because of you.' Small, but extremely useful.”
“He complained before attending an event and stayed close to me at first. Then he met another boy who liked the same game. On the way home, he said, 'I wouldn't mind going again.'”