When a family wants to reclaim their attention from screens

That a family would choose together to reclaim its attention is itself the beginning of the closeness you seek. Three things guide it. Set the shape of the home together, not by decree — decide as a family what the screens have taken and what you want back, so the arrangement is owned by all rather than resented as one person's law, and holds far better. Make screen-free times and places the home's natural way — a few plain clearings, the table and the evening hour and the bedrooms, held steadily without nightly battle until they are simply how your home is. And fill the freed time with each other — shared meals, games, walks, real being-together — for a family that removes the screens and offers nothing drifts back, while one that fills the space with warmth wants the screens less. The goal was never less screen but more of each other. What has the drift onto screens taken from your family?