No algorithms. No YouTube. No ads. No tracking. No strangers.
Plug in the POMnetwork device in your home and your kids get their own safe Wi-Fi filled with vetted games, books, and child-friendly activity apps. Works on any phone, tablet, or laptop. Oh, and no subscription, either.
Six families spent ninety days on a local-only network. The results were stranger, and gentler, than we expected.
Kids Academy was started by three parents and a retired school librarian who grew tired of being told the only way to keep a child safe online was to give another company more of their attention. We disagreed. We still do.
We publish essays, guides and small tools that treat digital wellness as a household practice, not a feature flag. We also make POMnetwork, a device that gives a home its own quiet internet — one where the router forgets everything it sees, and the children remember everything they made.
We keep counting minutes. We should be counting meaning.
How we designed POMnetwork to forget everything it sees.
No ads, no unlocks, no "premium currency." Just games.
Household policies that survive contact with a tired Tuesday.
The pediatric psychologist on why the blank afternoon matters.
A plain-language glossary for tired parents.
Why local-only multiplayer hits different at eleven years old.
Features are a cost. Here's our running tally.
How to set up a room that won't interrupt itself.
A small router that emits a local-only Wi-Fi network for your family. Offline games. Parental controls. Zero outside traffic. Setup takes four minutes.
“The first weekend was awful. The second was the best one we've had in two years.”
“My nine-year-old asked if we could build a game together. He has never asked me that.”
“It is the only piece of hardware in our house that I do not have to fight.”