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Have you plugged an ethernet cable into the wireless router, logged into the console (might have to Google the default IP address and username/password if you haven't already reset those and know what they are) and then click around looking for settings, possibly assigning priority to devices, or adding a "Guest" SSID that step-kids devices default to?
I wonder why your laptop is knocked off first? Maybe it is on an ordered list, sorted numerically by assigned IP, and yours is the first IP because it is not always leasing a new DHCP address, as your step-kids' devices might be--an address which times out and has a new one assigned next time.
Maybe you could assign a static IP to your laptop, or find a checkbox which explicitly gives its IP precedence?
Maybe you could tell the router to never drop the connection to your MAC address?
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