Just One More — 3 Books on Phones, Focus and Staying Safe Online (Ages 10-14) | Bachpan by Vyaktigat Vikas

Why you can't put it down - and why that isn't your fault

This book does not ask your child to give anything up. It shows them the machine. Pull-to-refresh is a slot machine lever. The red dot is a debt their brain wants to clear. A streak stopped being a game and became rent. By the end they can name every trick that was built to hold them — and knowing the trick is most of the way out.

• • Their guess vs their phone's real screen-time number, written side by side
• • The slot machine, infinite scroll, autoplay, the red dot, streaks
• • They design three ways to keep a kid watching — then turn the page and find all three already exist
• • The four tells that it is happening to them right now

Getting your focus, your sleep and your marks back

The one parents actually lie awake about: padhai me dhyan nahi lagta. This is the working book — roughly seventy per cent activity, because on the published evidence goal setting and self-monitoring beat every other approach to cutting screen time. Your child runs the table test, keeps a seven-night sleep log, redesigns their home screen and writes three rules in their own handwriting.

• • The table test — two days with the phone in another room, both logged
• • The seven-night sleep log, and the 9pm line
• • The boredom list: twenty things written down before they are needed
• • The 7-day comeback tracker — hours, what I did instead, how I felt after

What's real, what's not, and who's out there

Judgement and safety, without the scare story. What is outside the frame of a perfect photo. Why comparison is rigged — their inside against somebody's outside. Which accounts leave them feeling worse, in their own handwriting. Ads that do not look like ads. And the pages that matter most: what a grown-up who is pretending actually does, and that they will never, not once, be in trouble for telling.

• • Spot what was changed, and spot the ad — four images each
• • The mute page, and the dadi test before you post
• • Never share: school, uniform, address, live location, home alone
• • My three adults — names and numbers, in my handwriting