About ScreenSorted
ScreenSorted is run by Mubarak Adeyemo, a parent of three who works in technology for a living: an IT manager at one of the world's largest medical-technology companies, with a master's degree in software solution architecture and a working depth in networking and cybersecurity. Every layer taught here has been running at home, managed daily, since 2020.
Those credentials are on LinkedIn if you want to check them.
In 2020, schools moved online overnight, and we faced what every family faced: three young kids (five, seven and eleven at the time) suddenly needed devices and the internet for everything, and no single app covered it. The difference was the day job. A career spent in enterprise IT, across networks, security and systems that have to keep working, meant knowing the tools existed. It still took years of daily, hands-on management to turn them into a method a busy family can actually live with.
The tools mostly already exist and cost nothing, but they are scattered across a dozen settings menus, they move between software versions, and working out the right order takes time most households do not have spare. Having an IT background at home turned out to be a fairly arbitrary advantage. ScreenSorted is an attempt to make that advantage available to people who do not happen to have one.
That happens three ways: a free checklist anyone can work through alone, workshops for schools and community groups, and hands-on setups for households who would rather not do it by themselves. Having spoken with parent groups in Ireland, the UK and Canada, the recurring theme is not a shortage of warnings. It is a shortage of specific, ordered instructions.
All four layers have been running in one household since 2020. Not as a demonstration, just as the way that house works. Here is the actual setup.
AdGuard Home on a Raspberry Pi filtering every device in the house (Pi-hole before that), plus a proper router with real parental controls, after the free ISP one didn't make the cut.
Google Family Link on the Android devices, Apple Screen Time on the iPads, Microsoft Family Safety on the Windows machine, PlayStation family controls on the console.
Smart plugs that quietly end the day for screens; no software update can argue with a socket.
The part no setting covers: ongoing conversations, renegotiation as they get older, and controls that loosen when they have earned it.
Whichever built-in tool fits each job: Google's, Apple's, Microsoft's, Sony's. We do not sell or resell software and take no commission, so there is nothing to gain from recommending one over another.
You type every credential yourself. We do not see, store or retain access to anything, during the session or after it.
No scare statistics, and no claim that any of this guarantees safety. Layers reduce risk; they do not remove it. Kids are participants in family safety rather than suspects, and controls should loosen as they grow.
Questions, workshop enquiries, or if you want to compare notes on routers.