Marta realized it almost by chance. While tidying up her 13-year-old son\u2019s room, she found a young adult novel that was very popular among his classmates. She had bought it herself a few weeks earlier, drawn in by the good reviews and the fact that her son had finally started reading again. But as she leafed through it, she discovered scenes and dialogue she hadn\u2019t expected to find in a book intended, in theory, for his age group. \u00abIf someone had warned me, I\u2019m not saying I wouldn\u2019t have let him read it, but at least I could have talked to him about it first,\u00bb she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stories like Marta's are common in many households. Parents control what TV shows their children watch, check the apps they use, and monitor their diets, but the content of the books they read often falls off their radar. It is precisely to fill that gap that Goalkeeper Parents<\/a>, a new platform powered by Alexia Publishing<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The tool functions as a reference catalog: for each book included, it provides a fact sheet with detailed information on the presence of violence, sexual content, profanity, drug or alcohol use, and ideological content such as references to gender ideology or the occult. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The database already contains 400 titles that are completely up-to-date, but any user can request an analysis of a title that does not yet appear in the catalog by filling out the contact form available on the website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rafael Mart\u00ednez-Echevarr\u00eda, the initiative\u2019s founder, explains that the project stems from a question that, according to him, people have stopped asking: not whether children read or not, but exactly what they read. In his view, \u201cfor a long time, it has been taken for granted that any reading is positive simply because it is reading, and that has led many families to stop paying attention to the specific content of each book.\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Mart\u00ednez-Echevarr\u00eda insists that \u201cthe tool is not intended to judge the literary quality of the works or to act as a moral filter that decides what can and cannot be read.\u201d His approach, he says, is different: \u201cEvery family has its own way of raising children and its own boundaries, and all the platform does is present concrete, verifiable data so that parents themselves can decide, without anyone else deciding for them.\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For the project\u2019s founder, freedom of choice depends on having enough information to make that choice. Buying a book without knowing what\u2019s actually in its pages, he argues, is like making a decision blindly. That\u2019s why he sums up the mission of Padres Guardametas as an effort to bring transparency to an area where, until now, there has been virtually none.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Alexia Editorial describes itself as a growing publishing house whose goal is to support parents in the\u2014not always easy\u2014task of raising their children. The publisher also invites families themselves to participate in expanding the catalog by suggesting titles and sharing their own reviews, with the goal of ensuring that the database continues to grow through user collaboration.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Marta se dio cuenta casi por casualidad. Ordenando la habitaci\u00f3n de su hijo de 13 a\u00f1os encontr\u00f3 una novela juvenil muy popular entre sus compa\u00f1eros de clase. La hab\u00eda comprado ella misma unas semanas antes, atra\u00edda por las buenas rese\u00f1as y por ver que el chico, por fin, hab\u00eda vuelto a leer. Pero al hojearla […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1166,"featured_media":63024,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,45],"tags":[594],"class_list":["post-63023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad","category-libros","tag-libros","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}A database that grows every day<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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A small publishing house with a specific mission<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n