{"id":11257,"date":"2026-02-14T13:58:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T13:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/?post_type=product&#038;p=11257"},"modified":"2026-03-30T09:49:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T09:49:53","slug":"parents-beware-of-the-digital-demon","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/product\/parents-beware-of-the-digital-demon\/","title":{"rendered":"PARENTS BEWARE OF THE DIGITAL DEMON"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"oMainBlock\" class=\"section visible-lg-block visible-md-block visible-sm-block visible-xs-block\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div id=\"ot-mainblock\" class=\"visible-lg-block visible-md-block visible-sm-block visible-xs-block col-lg-12 col-lg-reset col-md-12 col-md-reset col-sm-12 col-sm-reset col-xs-12 col-xs-reset\">\n<div class=\"row visible-lg-block visible-md-block visible-sm-block visible-xs-block \">\n<div id=\"ot-main\" class=\"visible-lg-block visible-md-block visible-sm-block visible-xs-block col-lg-12 col-lg-reset col-md-12 col-md-reset col-sm-12 col-sm-reset col-xs-12 col-xs-reset\">\n<div class=\"productdetails-view productdetails\">\n<div class=\"vm-product-tab\" role=\"tabpanel\">\n<div class=\"tab-content\">\n<div id=\"vm-product-desc-container\" class=\"tab-pane fade in active\" role=\"tabpanel\">\n<div class=\"product-description\">\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<h3>About the Author<\/h3>\n<p>Malavika Kapur is a former Head of Department of Clinical Psychology at NIMHANS and now visiting professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, with forty years experience in child psychology. In this book she lays out the dangers of too much gaming on the smartphone and too much television viewing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<h3>About the Book<\/h3>\n<p>Televisions, smartphones, internet, social media are all horribly addictive and the Covid pandemic has doubled the online presence of children. The WHO says, \u2018Digital disorders are hugely under-recognised in India\u2019. According to Rajesh Sagar of AIIMS Delhi, \u2018It is fast emerging as India\u2019s newest lifestyle disease\u2019. Digital games, advertisements and reality shows are dangerous for a growing mind. The Government of India has banned online games like PUBG, Blue Whale, sites like Tik Tok. The Government of Karnataka has even banned online classes for children up to class five. This book is an attempt to flag the dangers and provide some suggestions on how to combat digital dependence. No teaching formula or A1 model can accommodate multiple diversities at the grassroots level. The National Institute of Mental Health and Neuroscience offers a SHUT (Services for Healthy Use of Technology) clinic for internet addiction. This needs to be created across the nation. The advertisers know the young are consumers. They are not bothered about how the ad impacts children, especially when there is no actual regulator and no parental bodies, nor teacher groups. No \u2018Truth about Technology\u2019 lobbies here. Rules need to be implemented. If Daag achche hain, then why teach children to be neat and clean?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[90,630,69,71],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11257","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-general","7":"product_cat-general-vitasta","8":"product_cat-new-arrivals","9":"product_cat-non-fiction","10":"pa_book-author-malavika-kapur","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/11257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=11257"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=11257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}