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Why Triple P Online: Teens and Screens makes all the difference

Being online plays a major role in modern teenage life. It brings opportunities for learning, connection, self-expression and belonging. But while there are lots of benefits, there are also risks. Built on the principles and evidence-based strategies of Triple P Online, this online parenting program can help you support your teen to develop healthy digital habits and stay safe online.

  • Build trust and connection with your teen
  • Reduce conflict and secrecy around phone and screen use
  • Learn how to talk about inappropriate content and online risks
  • Set healthy boundaries while supporting your teen’s growing independence
  • Feel confident guiding your teen’s screen use
  • Support your teen’s physical and mental health and well-being

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Is Triple P Online: Teens and Screens right for me and my family?

As a parent or caregiver, you might be worried about how being online can impact your teen’s mental health, or how to help your teen control their screen use. Or perhaps you’re concerned about cyberbullying, social media, video games, online chats or phone addiction. We understand every teen is unique and they all experience different struggles. That’s why Triple P Online: Teens and Screens has been developed so you can choose the strategies that suit you and your family.

  • Support your teen to build healthy digital habits
  • Give them the tools they need to handle negative online experiences
  • Develop a personalized plan within 60-90 minutes
  • Builds on evidence-based strategies developed by experts
  • Do it anywhere, anytime, at your own pace
  • Suitable for tweens and teens aged 12-16 years

Support your teen to develop healthy digital habits

Triple P Online: Teens and Screens is part of the Triple P – Positive Parenting Program®. The course gives you practical tools, skills and knowledge to support your teen to use screens wisely and stay safe online. Encourage healthy screen use, reduce conflict and support your teen’s mental and physical well-being while they gradually develop independence. Triple P Online: Teens and Screens is created by child development experts and builds on the principles of the evidence-based Triple P Online program. It’s designed to fit family life, with strategies you can start using straight away.

What’s in the Triple P Online: Teens and Screens course?

  • What’s in the Triple P Online: Teens and Screens course?

    Triple P Online: Teens and Screens is designed for families of tweens and teens aged 12-16. It provides support for parents and caregivers that can be tailored to each family. Use strategies developed by experts to help teens use screens wisely and stay safe online.

  • Topic 1: Living in a digital world

    Explore how screens affect teens and learn simple and practical ways to guide them and support healthy screen habits.

  • Topic 2: Common screen time challenges

    Parents are often concerned about screen use, particularly when it becomes difficult for young people to stop, leads to emotional reactions or happens at inappropriate times. Learn some common screen time issues for teenagers and their families.

  • Topic 3: Why do screen time challenges happen?

    Learn about contributing factors and influences on teens’ habits and reactions. These may include consistency in boundaries, modelling of device use and levels of supervision.

  • Topic 4: Screen time guidelines

    Be introduced to generally recommended guidelines around screen use and healthy limits and consider ways to balance this with other important activities such as sleep, homework and family routines.

  • Topic 5: Preventing screen time challenges

    Learn how to openly communicate about screens, set age-appropriate limits, have reasonable expectations and encourage a range of physical, creative and offline social activities.

  • Topic 6: Teaching healthy screen time habits

    Get practical information and tips to proactively support healthy screen use, talk with your teen about social media, model appropriate device use, and use praise and encouragement for positive behaviours.

  • Topic 7: Responding to conflict over screen time

    Learn how to have conversations with your teen about screen use, including how to make clear requests, respond consistently to rule-breaking, follow through with consequences when needed and manage protests or emotional reactions.

  • Topic 8: Working out a plan together

    Discover how to work together with your teenager to create a practical plan for reducing social media use and building a healthier balance beyond screens.

  • Topic 9: Supporting your teen to be responsible and safe online

    Find out how to navigate risky online behaviour. Cyberbullying, pornography and gaming addiction are a few areas that parents may need to address.

  • Topic 10: Looking ahead

    Set goals and plan with your teenager for beyond the program.

Commonly asked questions

Triple P is one of the few parenting programs in the world with evidence to show it works. There are literally hundreds of trials and studies to show Triple P works for most families, in many different cultures, and in many different family situations. Triple P Online is also the first online parenting program proven to work.


The entire program takes about 60-90 minutes to complete. Of course, everyone is different and some people might take a little more or less time. Some people like to do the whole course in one go. Others like to break it up into smaller chunks. Finish the program in one session or take it slow and do it over a few days or whenever suits – it's up to you!


Triple P International takes your privacy and data protection very seriously. We have rigorous IT security systems and procedures. We don’t share your information with any third-party marketing organizations or unauthorized personnel. Your email address and region are visible to our administration team. Your progress may be visible to a system administrator in case you need to change your email address. All other family information within the program is anonymized. If you’d like more information, please review our privacy policy.


It’s helpful, but not essential. Triple P is used very successfully by individual parents. When more than one parent or caregiver does the course, it helps everyone work as a team to make changes. This includes grandparents, step-parents and other family members, if they also care for your children. It makes it easier to communicate better about parenting, argue and disagree less, and support each other more. If you want more than one parent or caregiver to have their own workbook and certificate, please register separately on our website.


One of the great things about Triple P is that it’s not about telling you what to do in every situation. It’s about helping you feel confident that you can work out what to do. This will be based on what you learn about child development and the strategies you’ve picked up, and your ability to review and refine. So, if you have questions about parenting, we suggest you go ahead and do the program! If it’s about something else to do with Triple P, you may want to try contacting us using this website’s contact details, via our social media channels, or through your local Triple P support service.