“My Story Steps” Has Potential For Long-Distance Grandparents Like Me

Our two youngest granddaughters live in different parts of the country far away from us.

As I’ve previously mentioned, we use the online Readeo tool to have a video conference with them where we read stories, play Pictionary with mini-whiteboards, and do “show-and-tell.”  It works very well.

I recently learned about a new AI-powered site called My Story Steps that I’m considering trying out with them.

AI-powered tools to create stories for kids are actually a dime-a-dozen.  In fact, they’re so numerous, I’ve stopped making additions to The Best Online Tools Using Artificial Intelligence For Creating Stories For Children.

My Story Steps, however, offers a bit of a twist on the idea by using AI to create age appropriate illustrated choose-your-own adventure stories.

You can create at least some stories for free, as well as access others on their site at no-charge, but I believe you have to pay if you want to create multiple stories or access many others.

But I think I’m going to try it with the grandkids by screensharing with Zoom.  They can take turns creating stories (it asks you questions about it) and making choices as the story goes along.

I’m actually not a big fan of these AI sites creating stories for kids – I personally spend a lot of time telling the grandkids stories I make-up and actually write storybooks for them using Bookbldr.

But I’m intrigued by My Story Steps and think it might be an engaging tool to use now-and-then.

I’m adding this info to The Best Places To Read & Write “Choose Your Own Adventure” Stories.