Adult
Lifelong Learners
Full depth. The operating model: inspect, test, refuse. Teach without handing a child your own agent.
- Sitting
- 40 minutes, or a 5-minute parent preview.
- Ritual
- Companion
- AI rule
- You are the operator. Give the child a new, simpler profile for their age — or no profile. Do not copy yours. Official Hermes docs win if a command is out of date.
The adult profile is yours. Child profiles are separate. Design, approve, test with fake examples, then invite the child.
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Do Not Hand Them Your Agent
Autonomous AI · Sitting 1 · 35 min
Frames the parent’s role before they guide
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Companion. The adult profile is yours. Child profiles are separate. Design, approve, test with fake examples, then invite the child. You are the operator. Give the child a new, simpler profile for their age — or no profile. Do not copy yours. Official Hermes docs win if a command is out of date.
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Autonomous AI
Subject hub- Sitting 1Do Not Hand Them Your AgentThis lesson is the parent operating model35 min
- Sitting 1The Harness Is the ProductThis is the operator's version of the same lesson32 min
- Sitting 2The House RuleVague 'use it wisely' is how hidden homework happens30 min
- Sitting 2Memory Review on a Calendar, Not a VibeThe kit ships MEMORY-REVIEW32 min
- Sitting 3Teach the Check, Not the FearYour job is not to become an ML engineer32 min
- Sitting 3Least Privilege Is a Weekly PracticeThe prior unit taught the spec32 min
- Sitting 4Least Privilege at the DeskSOUL32 min
- Sitting 4The Operator Closes the ToolThe child will not close the agent if they have never seen you close it32 min
- Sitting 5COPPA-Spirit, Not TheaterThe GitHub kit has PRIVACY32 min
- Sitting 6A Week of the MethodThe academy fails if only the child is being trained32 min
Art
Subject hub- Sitting 1Look With ThemThe adult models slow looking32 min
- Sitting 1Keep MakingShame about not being artistic is how the house outsources making32 min
- Sitting 2Copy With ThemThe adult models copying from life32 min
- Sitting 3Name Your TasteThe adult names their taste32 min
- Sitting 4The Feed Trained Your Eye TooThe adult is not exempt32 min
- Sitting 5Model the RefusalThe adult models the refusal32 min
- Sitting 6The Cycle at the TableThis is the adult capstone32 min
Computer Science
Subject hub- Sitting 1The Harness Is Not OptionalThe Hermes kit ships EVALS32 min
- Sitting 1The Kit Is the LessonPoint at the on-site Hermes page and the GitHub kit32 min
- Sitting 2Automate the Gate or Accept the DriftIf you are technical, the Hermes kit and tools like GitHub Actions can run the harness on every change32 min
- Sitting 3Eval-Driven Agent DesignThis is the operator's version of eval-driven development32 min
- Sitting 4The Operator Runs the CycleThis is the operator's capstone32 min
English
Subject hub- Sitting 1Modeling the Ethos QuestionThe household runs on trust32 min
- Sitting 1Do Not Write Their PaperThe temptation is love: you want the grade to be OK32 min
- Sitting 2Do Not Outsource the Phone CallThe temptation is real32 min
- Sitting 3Audit the Arguments You ShareYou share arguments every day: a post about a school policy, an article about health, a model's answer about a decision32 min
- Sitting 4The Speech That Came From NowhereThis is the adult version of the capstone on manufactured persuasion32 min
- Sitting 5Keep Your Voice AliveVoice atrophies32 min
- Sitting 6Rhetoric Is a Household PracticeThis is the adult capstone32 min
History
Subject hub- Sitting 1Read the Document With ThemThe adult models reading the document32 min
- Sitting 1Runnymede: The Charter, the Legend, and the Gap BetweenThis sitting is for the parent who wants to teach the Magna Carta honestly32 min
- Sitting 1Philadelphia: The Quiet RevolutionThis sitting is for the parent who wants to teach the founding honestly32 min
- Sitting 1The Committee of Five: The Founding as Collective ActThis sitting is for the parent who wants to teach the Declaration's authorship honestly32 min
- Sitting 1Publius: Advocacy That Became a CommentaryTeach this sitting as a source problem, not a patriotism problem32 min
- Sitting 1The Seats-and-Bodies AnswerThis is the ugly-clause sitting for the unit, load-bearing32 min
- Sitting 1Don't Skip the WordsDeclaration, a war letter, a local historic marker32 min
- Sitting 2The Declaration at the TableThe adult reads the Declaration aloud32 min
- Sitting 2The Rule of Law and Its PriceThis sitting is for the parent who wants to teach the rule of law honestly32 min
- Sitting 2Power Against Power: The Design and Its DiscontentsThis sitting is for the parent who wants to teach the Constitution's structural design honestly32 min
- Sitting 2Self-Evident Truths: The Promise, the Sources, and the GapThis sitting is for the parent who wants to teach the Declaration's central sentence honestly32 min
- Sitting 2Faction: The Extended Republic and Its ShadowHave the text on the table32 min
- Sitting 2The Load-Bearing SentenceBingham and Howard32 min
- Sitting 3Read the Design With ThemThe adult reads one article of the Constitution with the child32 min
- Sitting 3Due Process: The Price of the PrincipleThis sitting is for the parent who wants to teach due process honestly — not as a settled principle but as a living a…32 min
- Sitting 3The Bill of Rights: The Losers Who Shaped the DocumentThis sitting is for the parent who wants to teach the Bill of Rights as a political product, not a sacred text32 min
- Sitting 3The Right of Revolution: The Most Dangerous IdeaThis sitting is for the parent who wants to teach the Declaration's most radical claim honestly32 min
- Sitting 351: The Machine That Assumes Imperfect PeopleThis is the most stolen sentence in American political talk32 min
- Sitting 3Proposition, Holding, InstrumentEverett's letter32 min
- Sitting 4Read the Missing Voice With ThemThe adult reads one missing-voice text with the child32 min
- Sitting 4Consent and the Problem of EnforcementThis sitting addresses the deepest question about consent: not whether the principle is right, but how it is enforced32 min
- Sitting 4The Three-Fifths Compromise: The Constitution's Original SinThis sitting is for the parent who wants to teach the Constitution's hardest truth honestly32 min
- Sitting 4All Men: The Promise, the Omission, and the EngineThis sitting is for the parent who wants to teach the Declaration's central paradox honestly32 min
- Sitting 4Judgment Without Sword: 78, Brutus, and CitationThe civics-test answer leads with Marbury32 min
- Sitting 4Membership as a Constitutional FactAdult may note 732 min
- Sitting 5The Republic Is a PracticeThe adult reads one amendment with the child32 min
- Sitting 5The Omission and the Chain of ExpansionThis sitting is for the parent who wants to teach the hardest truth about Magna Carta: the document was not for every…32 min
- Sitting 5Judicial Review: The Self-Made Power and Its PriceThis sitting is for the parent who wants to teach judicial review honestly32 min
- Sitting 5The Slave Trade Passage: The Compromise at BirthThis sitting is for the parent who wants to teach the Declaration's founding compromise honestly32 min
- Sitting 5The Lost Brief: 84, the Ninth, and Who WonThis sitting is how you prove to a teenager that The Federalist is advocacy32 min
- Sitting 5The Docket Is Not the SentenceTheological humility32 min
- Sitting 6The Citizen at the TableThis is the adult capstone32 min
- Sitting 6The Chain, the Practice, and the Next LinkThis is the capstone32 min
- Sitting 6The Amendment Chain: The Living DocumentThis is the capstone of the Constitution unit32 min
- Sitting 6The Declaration's Afterlife: The Chain of PromiseThis is the capstone of the Declaration unit32 min
- Sitting 6The Chain: What the Brief Sold, and What It CostThis is the sitting that connects the Federalist unit to Magna Carta, the Declaration, and the Constitution32 min
- Sitting 6The Amendment as Reconstruction, Not as PosterTrump v32 min
World Languages
Subject hub- Sitting 1Climb With ThemThe adult climbs the ladder with the child32 min
- Sitting 1Speak With ThemYou are allowed to be worse than they are32 min
- Sitting 2Listen With ThemThe adult models listening without subtitles32 min
- Sitting 2Hear Them, Then TryYou may be worse32 min
- Sitting 3Two Minds at the TableThe adult names one structural difference at the table32 min
- Sitting 3A Phrase That Hits the TableThank you, please, a food32 min
- Sitting 4The Practice at the TableThe adult commits to one weekly practice32 min
- Sitting 4Ask Them in Their WordsWhat did you eat32 min
- Sitting 5Don't Let It Speak for ThemRelatives, restaurants, voicemail32 min
- Sitting 6The House SpeaksThis is the adult close of Voice32 min
Mathematics
Subject hub- Sitting 1Model the PathThe adult models the path32 min
- Sitting 1Numbers in the HouseTip, travel time, a news statistic32 min
- Sitting 2Show Your Work, Even at HomeThis sitting is about the adult showing work at home32 min
- Sitting 3The Reviewer at HomeThe adult models the reviewer relationship32 min
- Sitting 4The Blank Board at the TableThe adult models the blank board test32 min
- Sitting 5Show the Path for OthersThe adult models the social act of proof32 min
- Sitting 6The Path at the TableThis is the adult capstone32 min
Wisdom & Philosophy
Subject hub- Sitting 1The Circle Is for You TooYou will be tempted to preach the circle at a child who is drowning32 min
- Sitting 1The Parent's Examined LifeThis sitting is personal and uncomfortable32 min
- Sitting 1Turing's WagerThis is the adult version of the foundational AI question32 min
- Sitting 1Belief That Can ThinkThis is the parent's theological humility sitting32 min
- Sitting 2Duty Without PerformanceMarcus is useful to parents because he had power and still needed a page32 min
- Sitting 2The Hardest ElenchusThis is the adult elenchus32 min
- Sitting 2The Room We Live InThis is where philosophy meets parenting32 min
- Sitting 2The Problem of EvilThis is the hardest sitting for parents32 min
- Sitting 3Time, Anger, and the DeviceThe children already know if your phone is the household emperor32 min
- Sitting 3The Parent's CaveThis is the uncomfortable sitting32 min
- Sitting 3Wiener's WarningThis is the sitting where alignment stops being abstract32 min
- Sitting 3The Parent's CityThis sitting applies Augustine to the family32 min
- Sitting 4What Remains After the WreckThis sitting is for you32 min
- Sitting 4The Form You Live ByThis sitting asks the adult to examine their own moral foundations32 min
- Sitting 4Aquinas's Questions for AdultsThe parent theological humility note: the Five Ways are philosophically contested32 min
- Sitting 5The Only Good and the Real WorldThis is the test32 min
- Sitting 5What Is a Person For?This is the existential sitting32 min
- Sitting 5The Synthesis That Won't DieThe parent theological humility note: Aquinas's synthesis is a Catholic achievement32 min
- Sitting 6Seeds in the Hardest SoilThis sitting is personal32 min
- Sitting 6The Mean Is Not a FormulaThis is the parenting sitting32 min
- Sitting 6Natural Law and the ParentThe parent theological humility note: natural law theory is a living tradition in Catholic social teaching32 min
- Sitting 7The Parent's CirclesThis sitting is about you, not the child32 min
- Sitting 7The River and the MarriageThis sitting applies Heraclitus to adult life32 min
- Sitting 7The Pattern of Falling and RisingThe parent theological humility note: Irenaeus's recapitulation is a theology of cosmic restoration32 min
- Sitting 8Your Nature, Your TelosThis is the existential question32 min
- Sitting 8What Stays When Everything ChangesThis is the adult version of the founding debate32 min
- Sitting 8Julian's HopeThe parent theological humility note: Julian is a mystic, not a systematic theologian32 min
- Sitting 9What You LeaveThis is the final Stoic sitting32 min
- Sitting 9The Pythagorean QuestionThis is the deepest sitting in the Greeks unit32 min
- Sitting 9The Metaphysics of RelationshipThe parent theological humility note: the Trinity is specifically Christian doctrine32 min
- Sitting 10If We Are AtomsThis is the final sitting of the Greeks unit — and the hardest32 min
- Sitting 10The Parent's Integrated LifeThe parent theological humility note: Gregory and Bonaventure write within a Christian frame (the goal of both contem…32 min
Science
Subject hub- Sitting 1The Measurement HabitThe household runs on numbers: cooking temperatures, medicine doses, travel times, package weights32 min
- Sitting 1Look TogetherYou do not need a lab32 min
- Sitting 2The Household Unit CheckThe household is full of unit traps32 min
- Sitting 3Model the WiggleThe adult models the wiggle32 min
- Sitting 4Teach the CatchThis is the adult version of the confident-wrong-number sitting32 min
- Sitting 5Calibrate Out LoudThe adult models calibration32 min
- Sitting 6The Household Measurement ProtocolThis is the adult capstone32 min
Critical Thinking
Subject hub- Sitting 1Make Checking DomesticThis is culture, not a worksheet32 min
- Sitting 1The Missing Voices Are the LessonThis is the sitting where you stop talking about bias as an abstraction and find the specific gap in your own life32 min
- Sitting 2Do Not Outsource the NodFamily disagreements are the curriculum32 min
- Sitting 2Frame Auditing as Household PracticeThis is the adult version of the frame audit32 min
- Sitting 3Let Them See You UpdateThis is the most expensive sitting for adult pride32 min
- Sitting 3Teach the Gap, Not the SloganThis is the adult capstone32 min
- Sitting 4House Words, House MeaningsFair, cheating, always, respect32 min
- Sitting 5Do Not Applaud the FinishYour catch is the curriculum32 min
- Sitting 6Let Them See the Whole PathCapstone for the unit32 min