Parents are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence like ChatGPT to manage the intensive demands of parenting. One viral figure on TikTok, Lilian Schmidt, has shared her experiences using AI to create bedtime stories, manage cleaning schedules, and plan meals. This innovation offers her relief from the mental load of parenting while allowing her to enjoy quality time with her daughter. The rising levels of parental stress have led many to seek unconventional methods to cope with the complexities of daily family life.
"ChatGPT literally helped me with breastfeeding, and how to decorate my daughter's birthday cake," one commenter wrote under Schmidt's video. "ChatGPT is carrying the weight of my family at this point," another added.
Schmidt found herself increasingly burnt out by the mental load of parenting their three-year-old. So she turned to ChatGPT.
"I feel like I'm cheating at mom life," she wrote in one post, expressing how AI has helped her balance parenting responsibilities.
Parental stress, the U.S. Surgeon General warned earlier this year, is a public health crisis. Parents are consistently more likely than other adults to report high levels of stress.
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