A practical, grounded guide for parents navigating screens, social media, and artificial intelligence — without panic, without permissiveness, and without pretending the landscape is what it used to be.
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Most books on this subject are written to scare you or to soothe you. Both miss the point.
The Safe and Ready Kids series is for parents who want to see the landscape clearly and act on it — without panic and without permissiveness. Every chapter is grounded in what is actually happening on the platforms, what the research says, and what works in real households where parents are tired, working, and doing their best.
Two books. The first covers ages zero through ten — the years where the foundation is set. The second, ages ten through seventeen — the years where it gets tested. Both are built around the same framework, the Safe and Ready Method™, designed to grow with your family.
A simple, durable framework you can apply at any age — and the structure that organizes every chapter of the series.
The home structure, devices, and defaults that prevent harm before it reaches your child. Upstream of every rule.
The ongoing conversations that build your child's judgment — about strangers, content, AI, and what to do when something feels wrong.
The supervised, hands-on experience that turns rules into competence. Not lectures — repetitions, with you nearby.
The presence and relationship that makes everything else work. The parent who hears about problems first, not last.
Most parents are some blend of the four below. The book speaks to each of you, by name, where it matters most.
The patterns you set in the first dozen sessions become the patterns for everything after. You have an enormous advantage: nothing has been decided yet.
The Family Media Plan is a one-time investment that pays back in the moments you do not have time for. The work that prevents the daily fights.
You are not looking for permission and you are not looking for a lecture. You need tools you can hand to grandparents and your child's friends' parents.
What got you here is not what gets you out. The book offers honest acknowledgement and a practical path that does not require declaring a state of emergency.
Loy is available to speak to law firms, technology companies, school and parent communities, child-safety conferences, and continuing legal education programs. He brings the same voice you find in the books: clear, grounded, calibrated to the audience, and honest about what the data actually shows.
Raising children in the AI age. Practical frameworks parents can act on, drawn from Safe and Ready Kids.
How AI is reshaping practice in family law, estate planning, criminal defense, and the paralegal profession. Drawn from the AI-Powered Professional Series.
Child safeguarding in the AI age. Drawing on his work as General Counsel and as a Founding Board Member of the SAFE Council.
To inquire about speaking, contact:
info@theproudfootgroup.com
Safe and Ready Kids: Ages 0–10 is available now on Amazon. To be notified when Book Two launches — and to get occasional resources for parents written in the same voice as the books — leave your email below.