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When family screen time boundaries keep failing despite good intentions

My teenage kids and I agreed to do a weekly family dinner with no devices but it keeps falling apart because someone always has something urgent and I don't know if I'm being unreasonable or if we actually need this boundary.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The challenge isn't setting the rule but navigating the constant exceptions that seem more urgent than connection.

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