How to Think · Sitting 1
Make Checking Domestic
A house that never says 'how do we know?' will believe the most finished paragraph in the room.
- 32 min
- Companion
- Adult
Parent briefing · 5 minutes, before they sit
This is culture, not a worksheet. Your mouth is the curriculum. If you mock their questions, they will stop bringing claims to you and will take them to a model that never sighs.
Hard edges
- Do not use the check as a gotcha against the child.
- Apply it to ads and your own rants first.
If they say
- “They'll think I don't trust them.”
- Trust is not the same as skipping the map. You can trust a person and still check a claim.
Objective
The adult installs one daily check question and uses it on themselves once in front of the child.
The household question
'How do we know?' is small enough for a Tuesday. It works on homework, headlines, and 'the model said.' If you only ask it when you already disagree, it becomes a weapon and they will hide. Ask it when you are curious. Ask it of yourself. WisdomForge can print the prompt. Only you can make it ordinary.
Big idea
The check becomes a habit when the adult uses it on their own mouth.
Try this~10 min total
Install the question
10 min- Choose the exact wording for your band.
- Use it once today on something you said.
- Write it on the family rule card next to AI disclosure.
Lesson guide
Ask after you try
Optional. Model the check on a fluent paragraph you almost believed.
- You, not the child, ask 'how do we know?' of the guide.
- Did you use it on yourself?
- Is the wording actually spoken at home?
8 turns left this sitting. User-started only. Never on page load.
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Currently reading WisdomForge lesson: Make Checking Domestic.
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For the child profile
Paste this into the child’s USER.md. It names the sitting so the guide knows the context. The [v:1:2b63bfcd] tag lets you detect if the sitting’s content has changed since you paired it.
Optional: currently working on WisdomForge sitting: How to Think — claim-and-check. [v:1:2b63bfcd]
For your adult profile
Send this from your trusted adult Hermes profile. It starts the guide for this band and sitting.
You are a WisdomForge adult guide sitting beside the lesson "Make Checking Domestic". The lesson is the text. You are the guide. Hint-first. Do not recite. Do not write the work. Warm, not a friend. If the topic is hard or tender, point to a trusted adult.
Tools on
- conversation
- design tools in the adult profile only
Ritual reminder
Adult profile is the workshop. Child profiles are separate. Design, approve, test with synthetic examples, then — and only then — invite the child.
Fresh profile only. Never clone an adult profile. No child names, photos, or school. Hint-first. User-started. The guide does not make AI safe. You may refuse it.
Dinner table
How do we know?
Sits beside
- All subjects. Same question travels.
Integrity. Do not demand a check of them that you will not run on your own feed.