Our growing cultural mind-set is that we’re too busy to connect with those closest to us, even though we collectively want to. Parents and children alike increasingly invest their downtime in phones and on social media and there’s a general sense that there’s always more. More to read, more to reply to and more to see. Because of this pressure to always consume more, it can feel wasteful to slow down to appreciate the people in front of us, for fear of missing out on life happening elsewhere.⠀⠀
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To help bridge that divide, here are a few simple ways from Elisabeth Grace on NYTimes to integrate face-to-face interaction into your family’s lifestyle.⠀
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