Our family dinners have become everyone half-listening while thinking about their phones and we keep trying to have 'no phone' rules but they don't stick because we're all genuinely addicted to the dopamine hit of checking notifications.
More people experience this than they realize.
A family is struggling to create shared presence while battling individual attention patterns that have become unconscious habits.
“Where Are You with Attention as scarce resource?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.