STEM blog
Privacy education
6 min read27 May 2026The parent night that actually changes home behaviour
Parent sessions fail when they are a list of apps to fear. They work when families leave with one written agreement and one thing to switch on tonight.
Fast Emu STEM team
Skip the app blacklist
App-specific advice is stale within a term. Principles are not: verify money requests by voice, one unique passphrase per account stored in a manager, and a shared rule about where devices sleep.
Leave with an artefact
Our highest-impact handout is a one-page family device agreement that parents and students sign in the room. Attendance is not the outcome; a signed page on the fridge is.
Give the school's escalation path in writing
Families need to know exactly who to contact when an account is compromised or a child is targeted, and what happens next. Put the name, the channel and the expected response time on the page.