Guidelines for Parents’ Manual Development to Prevent the Threat of Internet Usage

Abstract

The threat of internet behaviors among youth and children has been increased dramatically in Thai society. The parents’ role is very significant to supervise their children how to use internet. Thus, parents should gain knowledge and perceive how to keep their eyes on the internet usage of their children. A manual is a knowledge resource, to build up a guideline for users to understand information, follow any activity’s instructions easily and it leads to the same standard level for the users to achieve appropriate guidelines to improve the manual for parents,
regard to prevent the threat of internet behaviors among youth and children. The research is qualitative research, interview psychological scholars and parents, who have children age 10 - 13 years old. The results found that, the design for the manual is very important and the design process is credible key for the users. Therefore, PDCAprocess is able to be adapted as following; 1) planning the design; 2) designing comprehensive manual, not only the information but as well as the design key, including its format, such as, front cover, back cover, illustration, typography and multi-channels to access; 3) counter checking the result with the sampling group, that related to the issue to test the manual or to evaluate the manual; 4) improving and practical using. Furthermore, the results also found that, besides the parent’s manual, a cooperation between families, schools and related organizations is also valuable to prevent the threat of internet behaviors among youth and children practically. Including, the support of related organizations to decide the policy or the activity to promote the usage of internet safely.
the goal. Consequently, this research aims to study the