Public Book
PUT THE MOBILE DOWN 2026
The 30-Day Plan to Reclaim Your Child From the Screen For Indian Parents of Children Aged 5 to 17 (Series 3 - IMMIGRATION ESSENTIALS - Tools, Tips & Protection)
by Manoj Palwe
About the Book
End the 11 p. m. fights — 30 days to restore sleep, grades, and your family. It is 11 p. m. Your child's bedroom door has a blue glow under it. Tomorrow's homework is not done. You knock. You hear the rustle of a mobile being shoved under a pillow. This is the fight every Indian parent now knows. You are not failing.
You are facing an opponent your parents never faced — an industry that has spent two trillion dollars engineering the most attention-capturing product in human history, against a developing brain that cannot fairly compete. Put the Mobile Down is the instruction manual no one handed you. Built on the JAMA July 2025 longitudinal study, which followed 4,285 children and identified addictive trajectories tripling suicide risk.
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Built on the Government of India Economic Survey 2025–26, which flagged 15% of Indian adolescents with moderate-to-severe technology addiction and a doubling of screen time to over six hours daily. Built on twenty-five years of front-line work with over 10,000 Indian families.
Inside the book: — The seven-question screen that tells you whether you are looking at a habit or an addiction. — The single highest-leverage intervention any parent can make tonight: the bedroom rule. Within two weeks, sleep improves. Within four weeks, mood improves. Within twelve weeks, grades improve.
— A day-by-day 30-day Unplug Plan you can execute inside an Indian household — with a tuition schedule, a working mother, a working father, possibly a grandparent in the next room, and a school WhatsApp group that will judge every decision. — Age-graded rules for 5–7, 8–10, 11–13, 14–15, and 16–17. A nine-year-old does not need the same plan as a sixteen-year-old.
Key features
Built on the Government of India Economic Survey 2025–26, which flagged 15% of Indian adolescents with moderate-to-severe technology addiction and a doubling of screen time to over six hours daily. Built on twenty-five years of front-line work with over 10,000 Indian families.
Benefits
Inside the book: — The seven-question screen that tells you whether you are looking at a habit or an addiction. — The single highest-leverage intervention any parent can make tonight: the bedroom rule. Within two weeks, sleep improves. Within four weeks, mood improves. Within twelve weeks, grades improve.
What works well
— A day-by-day 30-day Unplug Plan you can execute inside an Indian household — with a tuition schedule, a working mother, a working father, possibly a grandparent in the next room, and a school WhatsApp group that will judge every decision. — Age-graded rules for 5–7, 8–10, 11–13, 14–15, and 16–17. A nine-year-old does not need the same plan as a sixteen-year-old.
















