The Silent Table
How to Raise Connected Children in an AI World
Because our children don't need parents who can see everything they do. They need parents they can still talk to.
The Book
Technology has changed childhood. And with it, the experience of being a mother. AI can answer tonight's homework. Algorithms decide what appears on tomorrow's screen. And somewhere along the way, the conversation at the dinner table went quiet.
Katie Edgar thought research and monitoring would keep her twins safe. She had the tools, the vigilance, the credentials. Then one night at her grandmother's dining table, her twelve-year-olds told a joke she couldn't understand — not because it was hidden from her, but because it lived in a language she'd never learned.
“It was the first time I realized my children were living inside a world I couldn't read. Not a world I disagreed with. Not a world I disliked. A world whose language I didn't even speak.”
Meet the Author
Katie Edgar is a lawyer, global executive, and mother of twins, to Emma and Cohen, who arrived after a long road of surgeries, miscarriages, and IVF.
After everything it took to become a family, staying connected to her kids mattered more than anything. So when she felt that connection slipping at her own dinner table, she went looking for a way back.
She decided to write The Silent Table not to teach parents how to parent, but to share the tools she's found work, what didn't, and why — so you can decide what's right for your family. She believes it always comes back to your values, your boundaries.
She lives in Maryland with her husband Corey, the twins, and two very spoiled dogs.
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