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A practical session on family device settings

Ninety minutes, built around live demonstrations rather than slides about screen time. Parents leave having changed one setting themselves, knowing where the others live, and with the checklist to work through at home.

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A friendly presenter walking parents through family device settings at a table

What the ninety minutes cover

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The four layers

Network, devices, physical space and family habits, and why overlapping them works better than relying on any one. Taught through one fictional family's ordinary Tuesday evening.

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Live demonstrations

One setting per layer, changed live on screen: router filtering, console family settings, and revoking one app's camera access. Everything shown is built into devices people already own.

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"Beat the Wall"

A five-minute exercise: a volunteer tries to reach a decoy page we have just blocked. Sometimes they get through, which is the more useful outcome, because it shows why layers and conversations matter more than any single setting.

Two formats

🌍 Live online (groups anywhere)🏡 In-person (by arrangement)
Zoom or your platform. Polls, live demos with screen-share, digital handout emailed within 24 hours. Time-zone-friendly slots for the UK and North America; we handle the maths. Your hall, staff room or library space. Projector demos, printed handouts, feedback in the room. Evening or after drop-off.

Every attendee gets the Starter Checklist free.

On price, honestly. Workshops are a flat per-booking fee, not a per-parent charge, so a bigger room costs you nothing extra. We are still setting rates with our founding hosts, so we quote per booking rather than post a number we would only have to change; you get it in writing before you commit. The first workshop for a new community group can often be a free pilot in exchange for honest feedback.

What this session is not

It is not a lecture about screen-time limits, and there are no statistics about what the internet is doing to children. The time goes on which settings to change, in what order, and how to talk to your kids about it. If you have sat through the other kind of evening, this is deliberately not that.

For organisers: we bring everything, including offline fallbacks in case the venue Wi-Fi is unreliable. You provide the room and a projector, or a Zoom link. Picking a date is usually one email.

Enquire about a workshop

Tell us about your group, rough numbers, and whether online or in person suits, and we will come back with three possible dates.