Helping Parents: um guia de apoio para pais e responsáveis na proteção de crianças e adolescentes no ambiente digital.

Abstract

With technological advances, children are having access to electronic devices at an increasingly earlier age, causing exposure to various risks to their physical and mental integrity. It is known that there are a number of useful tools and resources for parental control on the internet, but the information is not widely disseminated and is scattered. Helping Parents is a support guide aimed at parents and guardians of children and adolescents, aiming to facilitate decision-making related to monitoring their children’s activities in the digital environment. The guide materializes in two artifacts: a website and an ebook. The objective is to gather information relevant to parental control, delivering informative and practical content so that parents have access, and from this, they can decide whether a certain control could be useful for the safety and education of their children. Based on the evaluation results, Helping Parents proved useful in helping parents protect their children online.