Allison Tuthill, Financial Representative

09/03/2026

# # # THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3RD: CHILDREN NEED PRIVATE SPACE TO BECOME THEMSELVES

Growing up requires experimentation. Children try on ideas, interests, styles, friendships, beliefs, versions of themselves, etc. Some stick, but many don't.

Adults sometimes forget how important it was to have thoughts that weren't permanently recorded -- bad poetry, embarrassing questions, awkward conversations, half-formed opinions, mistakes. For those of us who are Gen X, we remember a time when our mistakes didn't end up as viral fodder on the internet.

As AI becomes embedded in education and daily life, privacy deserves a place in the formation conversation. What information about a child is collected? What is retained? Who can access it? How long does it follow them? Can children explore ideas without every developmental experiment becoming permanent data?

Privacy isn't only a cybersecurity question. For children, it may also be a developmental one. Growing people need some room to change without the pressure of knowing that every little thing is being recorded and stored somewhere.

**Question:** Do you think today's children have enough space to experiment, make mistakes, and simply outgrow things privately?

09/03/2026

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09/03/2026

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09/02/2026

# # # WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2ND: WHO DOES A CHILD LEARN TO TRUST?

Children begin life depending upon other people to tell them about the world: parents, teachers, family, friends, books, institutions, etc.

Over time, part of growing up is learning that sources can be mistaken, that people can disagree, that authority can be questioned, that evidence matters, that expertise matters, that motives matter. And sometimes "I don't know" is the most trustworthy answer available.

Now children are encountering AI systems capable of producing confident, fluent, personalized explanations about almost anything. That makes discernment enormously important.

Not simply: "Is this answer correct?," but: "How would I know?," "What is the source?," "What evidence supports it?," "When should I verify?," "Who has relevant expertise?," or "What remains uncertain?"

Perhaps AI literacy should ultimately become part of something much older and larger: **Learning how to decide what deserves our trust.**

**Question:** Who taught you how to question information without becoming cynical about everything?

09/02/2026

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09/02/2026

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Contrary to what our name suggests, we're not woodworkers, nor do we clear trees. But we do clear the way for bright financial futures.

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09/01/2026

# # # TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1ST: CHILDREN LEARN FROM OTHER CHILDREN

Education isn't only what happens between a teacher and a student. Children also learn from one another constantly -- they negotiate, compromise, compete, collaborate, argue, imitate, lead, follow, exclude, include, repair relationships, discover that other people see the world differently, etc.

Some of those lessons are messy. That's partly the point.

A machine can potentially help a child practice social situations or think through a difficult interaction, but other children provide something fundamentally important: **Other people are not fully controllable.** They have their own wants, feelings, ideas, boundaries, strengths, weaknesses, and bad days. Learning how to live alongside them is part of becoming human.

As we think about individualized AI learning, I hope we don't accidentally optimize away some of the inefficient, frustrating, wonderful social experiences through which children learn how to live with one another.

**Question:** What did other children teach you that no adult could have taught quite the same way?

09/01/2026

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09/01/2026

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08/31/2026

# # # MONDAY, AUGUST 31st: TEACHERS ARE MORE THAN INFORMATION DELIVERY SYSTEMS

If education were primarily about transferring information, AI would raise an enormous question: Why do we need teachers? But teachers have never simply delivered information. A great teacher notices -- the confused expression, the unusual question, the child who stopped participating, the student who needs another challenge, the kid who needs someone to believe they can do better.

Teachers model curiosity, standards, patience, humor, discipline, enthusiasm, fairness, and countless other qualities children absorb while learning something else entirely.

AI may become an extraordinary educational resource. I hope it does. Perhaps it can even free teachers from some administrative work so they have more time for the deeply human parts of teaching. Because education isn't simply information moving from one place to another, it's also relationship. And sometimes a child's entire trajectory changes because one adult truly sees them.

**Question:** Which teacher do you still remember—and why?