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Some parents seem to believe that quality family time would spontaneously happen, if not for all those darn screens taking away all our attention and free time.

There's a tiny bit of truth in that, but sometimes parents need to actually do parenting and force their family to put down the phone or stop watching the tv and do things together.

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Tiny bit of truth? I think for many it would happen almost instantaneously, genuinely where else would people put those 3+ hours now spent on the computer/phone/tv.

It would also make it easier as more family oriented businesses would become viable when they would no longer compete with phones and tv (e.g bowling alleys).

I obviously agree with the latter but it doesn't change the fact that the (vast) majority of parents will fail at it similar to junkies failing at getting sober.

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