When you click on the 2 year old options, it says "6 Activities for Kids Aged 2" despite there being 19 shown, and the text begins "Nine-year-olds are full of ideas..."

The images are good but kinda off... e.g. for https://offline.kids/activity/water-play-tub/ the kid and tub are floating in a even larger body of water, and for https://offline.kids/activity/fabric-sensory-tunnel/ there is a magical rigid blanket-tunnel.

There are plenty of examples where a screen provides a better and more enriching/edifying experience than dead trees, etc

Some trees and dirt will take you a long way providing thousands of hours of fun. As kids we found these big black horned beetles and started a beetle gladiator arena that kept us preoccupied for months at a time feeding and training our biggest beetles. Kids are very creative if you let them be.

We need Klutz to come back https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klutz_Press

Strict age calibration (matching phrasing and examples to each developmental level)

Automated QA to catch count mismatches (“6 activities” vs 19) and AI slip-ups

Concrete analogies (“volcanoes are like shaken soda bottles”) and kitchen-table experiments you can actually do

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"Within the last few weeks, Mark and I have built and launched Offline.Kids.

It’s a website to help parents reconnect with their kids and for kids to reconnect with the world around them.

Offline.Kids is directory of screen-free activities for all ages. Each activity is categorised so that parents can find appropriate activities for their situation.

For example, you can find:

quick, clean activities for a 6 year olds outdoor kids activities that take 1-2 hours low energy indoor crafts We built the site off the back of our new directory landing page plugin (catchy name still in progress!). It instantly creates thousands of SEO friendly landing pages for the activities. It’s early days, but Google is successfully indexing the pages and we’ll see how the rankings change over time.

So, if you’re looking for screen-free activities for your kids, check out the website, and share with anyone you think might find it useful!"

Did anyone even review these AI generated posts before publishing? It's one thing to publish something you didn't write, but it's another thing to publish something you didn't even bother to read:

This activity for ages 3 to 10:

> Instructions

> 1. Clear a safe space in your home > > 2. Set up crawling sections under chairs > > 3. Create jumping stations with pillows > > 4. Make balance beams with rope > > 5. Design tunnels with boxes

First, you should not be leaving children unattended around string or rope (the materials listed here). It's negligent to have that absent from the safety tips, and it's concerning that knowledge is obscure enough that the text generator wouldn't provide a bullet point with that advice.

But also, how many people have a place where they can "Make balance beams with rope"? What low-to-the-floor fixtures do people commonly have with the sheer strength to make a tightrope for children to walk across?

* https://highrise.digital/blog/building-offline-kids-a-direct...

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44765730#44782446