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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
