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SUMMARY:Agree to a no-device time
DESCRIPTION:But what if someone emails me?\nI’ll be there in a minute!\nOne of the things that really frustrates me at our household is the time in the\nevening when the kids are finally in bed, we sit down for our evening meal\nwith the TV on and on each side of the table or sofa arm is the dreaded blue\nlight of the mobile phone.\nThe constant interruption and distraction of social alerts, WhatsApp\nmessages, pointless notifications constantly interrupting what should be\nquality time with my wife. And guess what? We cut off our conversations, put\nthe cutlery down, stop watching the film and direct our gaze immediately at\nthe handset on the side. It’s so annoying!\nI get it, we live in a 24 hour world where anything can happen at any time of\nthe day. But what is that doing for our time at home? When is this time ring\nfenced and no matter what happens, it’s our time?\nThe case for the defence here is that my Mrs tends to be the one who sorts\nthe kids school pick ups and entertaining them in the period after school and\nmy getting home so there is the argument that this is the only time she can\nbe active to ‘catch up’ on messages.\nI’ve often suggested half jokingly that it’d be easier for me to message my\nwife rather than sit next to her at home!\nSomething I want to work on in this regard is no device time. I’m bad for it\ntoo, checking my emails at 8pm onwards or not being truly focussed on the\nimportance of that time at home.\nRemoving devices from the room, locking them in a box, putting them on\ncharge upstairs would be a really helpful thing to do and something I think we\ncan implement quite quickly.\nBut what does this look like for you?\nAre devices a bit of a crutch for you and the ones at home?\nDo they create unnecessary distraction and interruption?\n
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