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Two Factor Parenting is a conversation between two parents navigating technology's role in raising kids. He's the early adopter and tech optimist. She's the skeptic who asks "but should we?" Together they tackle screen time, AI, social media, and all the parenting decisions that don't come with a manual.
Two parents. Two perspectives. Raising kids in the age of screens, AI, and chaos.
Two parents. Two perspectives. Raising kids in the age of screens, AI, and chaos.
Update frequency:
every 23 days
Average audio length:
37 minutes
English
United States
10 episodes
since Feb. 15, 2026
episodic
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PTA flyers, fundraisers, team activities, and school calendars—the parent volunteer workload adds up. Matt and Val share how they use AI to lighten it, explain three practical ways to approach the tools, and discuss what to consider before sharing organizational or children’s information.
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We're back. Summer happened, life happened, and somewhere in there we both listened to Dopamine Kids by Michaeleen Doucleff, author of Hunt, Gather, Parent. We came away with useful ideas—and a few substantial objections.
Why do kids want more screen time after they've already had an hour? We discu…
Val came up with a metaphor that actually works: your kid's tablet is a house, the apps are rooms, and the internet is the front door. Open the door and the whole world is right there — good, bad, and everything in between.
Matt and Val break down how to teach kids what the internet actually is be…
Toy Story 5 is out, and it's basically a Two Factor Parenting episode in movie form. Bonnie gets a tablet called Lilypad, and the toys have to figure out whether tech is the enemy — or whether the real question is more complicated than that. Matt and Val break down what the movie gets right: the pa…
Matthew and Val continue the AI-in-schools conversation with Christina Andrade Melly, a high school English teacher, education advocate, former Missouri State Teacher of the Year, and parent. The conversation starts with students using AI in the classroom, but it quickly gets bigger: why some kids …
Phones, smartwatches, Chromebooks — where should schools draw the line? In this episode, Matthew and Val talk through the growing push for phone-free schools, North Carolina’s new device rules, and why the real question is bigger than “phones or no phones.” They dig into whether smartwatches are a …
What happens when you bring a robot into your home? For Val, the answer is clear: It is going to murder us.
In this episode, the Two Factor Parenting co-hosts tackle humanoid robots in the home—a topic that hits differently when you are a parent trying to figure out where these things even fit in d…
Val stumbled onto a TLC My Strange Addiction episode about a woman in a relationship with an AI chatbot — and fell down a rabbit hole. In this episode, Matt and Val react to the bizarre and alarming world of AI companionship: the TLC story, a Hollywood rumor about a celebrity dating an AI, the Snap…
Meet Winston — the AI assistant Matt built using Open Claw, an open-source personal AI system. In this episode, Matt explains how it works and why it's different from ChatGPT, while Val raises important questions about security, accessibility, and what it means when anyone can download sophisticate…
Welcome to the very first episode of Two Factor Parenting. We’re Matt and Val Davis — parents of three navigating the tension between technology and real life. In this episode, we introduce ourselves, share our backgrounds in education and AI, and explain what “Two Factor Parenting” means: a balanc…
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