But Cuban said he had to adopt a different strategy for his son, now 13, who doesn’t like to read. Cuban was worried that his kid’s hate for books could “hurt him long term” — until he realized his son could learn differently.
“They consume a lot of information [online],” Cuban said. “The challenge wasn’t so much, are they learning? …The challenge for me was understanding how they learn.”
After noticing his son watching YouTube and TikTok videos to learn, Cuban realized the platforms could act as parenting tools.
″[Tiktok] is the best parental tool in the world because… [it’s] artificial intelligence based off of what you watch,” Cuban said on the podcast. “So, if I want to know what my kids are into, I just look at their TikTok feeds.”
