A mom went viral for co-parenting her kids with AI. More parents are using it for to-do lists and even coaching.

"For the first few years of her daughter's life, Lilian Schmidt remembers bedtime as a daily battle. She and her fiancé spent about three hours every night trying to create a calm environment before bed, leading to power struggles and tears. Then, Schmidt got some parenting advice from an unlikely source: ChatGPT. It suggested the opposite: letting her daughter jump around and exert energy before bed. The first night Schmidt tried it, she said her daughter fell asleep in five minutes."

"Since then, she started using ChatGPT to help with everything from organizing to-do lists to tweaking meal-prep recipes. "I'm definitely feeling so much calmer," Schmidt, 33, told Business Insider. "My brain has finally stopped running." Schmidt, who makes TikToks about using ChatGPT prompts and sells a "vault" of pre-made ones for other parents to use, said she uses her spare time to exercise, read, or just enjoy moments with her daughter and stepson without worrying about parenting logistics."

""Parents are being pulled in a lot of different directions with sometimes 10, 15 emails from the school per day, job stressors, just keeping those different tasks organized, " Lorain Moorehead, a licensed therapist and Arizona State University professor, told Business Insider. She said she's seen more parents use AI tools as a "great support" for tasks like maintaining schedules for their kids."

Lilian Schmidt spent about three hours nightly trying to calm her young daughter, with power struggles and tears. A single ChatGPT suggestion — letting the child jump to expend energy — ended long bedtime battles and led to immediate sleep. Schmidt began using ChatGPT for organizing to-do lists, tweaking meal-prep recipes, and creating prompts she shares with other parents. She reports feeling calmer and able to use spare time for exercise, reading, and family moments. Parents increasingly use AI tools to handle schedules, school communications, and household logistics, which can support overwhelmed caregivers when applied appropriately.

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