Could You Make It Through Dinner Without Checking Your Phone? - NYT

by **bdahm** Mon Jul 16, 2018 11:24 am

When Marc and Kara Lyons take their family out for a nice dinner, they typically hand their two sons cellphones to play games and watch YouTube videos. Sometimes, the parents grab the devices back to check their own email and text messages.

But on a recent night at Hearth, an Italian-inspired restaurant in the East Village, the boys, 5 and 7, colored on blank white paper with crayons. Their parents discussed the highlights of their trip to New York from their home in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to celebrate Mr. Lyons’s 40th birthday.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/14/technology/dinner-without-cellphone.html

-Bill