A balanced starting point
Your Young Person’s Digital Interests Can Matter.
Screens may be a place of competence, calm, friendship, learning or creativity. The useful question is whether there is enough room for the rest of life too.
Balance can include sleep, movement, relationships, responsibilities, practical activity and opportunities to build confidence beyond a screen.
Information, not diagnosis
What Families Can Expect From This Approach
The programme is strength-first, adaptable and focused on practical next steps.
Our wider Kids Fitness First approach explains why we look first at strengths, environment and participation rather than treating difference as a deficit. This family page translates that approach into practical starting points.
No blame
The charity does not assume that screen use is caused by poor parenting or lack of effort.
No one-size-fits-all rule
Routines and support should reflect age, circumstances, needs and what helps the young person participate.
Strength-first language
Interests and differences are explored as possible starting points, not labels or problems to correct.
Practical next steps
The developing programme focuses on manageable activity, reflection and routes into wider participation.
Illustrative imagery · These photographs represent the approach and do not depict individual families.
The programme for ages 16–24
A Developing Programme With Flexible Delivery.
Delivery can be shaped as a focused cohort or a broader partner-led scheme.
Referral criteria, location, timing, safeguarding arrangements, delivery partners and cohort size can be confirmed for each opportunity. The charity does not promise a place or start date until arrangements are confirmed.
- Final eligibility and referral process
- Location and proposed dates
- Safeguarding and consent arrangements
- Delivery and progression partners
Explore practical guidance
Start With Strengths, Learning and Confidence
Families often find it useful to look at what already works before deciding what needs to change.
Recognising different strengths
Look across digital, creative, social and practical settings to see where capability is already visible.
Different ways of learning
Understand why children can engage with information and experiences differently without forcing them into fixed learning-style labels.
Strengths-based parenting
Use existing interests, abilities and positive qualities as foundations for confidence and development.
Useful information
Read the digital balance guide.
A calm overview of what balance can mean and how to think about next steps without shame or fear.
