Dr. Becky is the parenting guru for the social media era. Now she’s an AI chatbot, too

Dolores Ballesteros, a Mexico-based mother of two, was getting desperate. Her 6-year-old son kept hitting his brother, age 3, and seemed angry at her all the time. No matter what she did, she couldn’t get through to him. At her lowest moments, she says, “I really thought he was acting like a psychopath.” Last Mother’s Day, she asked her husband for outside help: a subscription to the Good Inside parenting app and its AI chatbot.

Ballesteros began using the chatbot to coach her through her son’s temper tantrums in real time.