The Digital Dinner Table

When my sons headed off to college one of the biggest changes in our lives was dinner. For twenty yearsI had turned myself inside out to get the five of us seated around the kitchen table as many evenings as possible. I didn’t do this because I believed it would earn them better grades or keep them out of trouble, but because spending some time together every day was what made us, us.

Where else could my family share the banal minutiae of our days with each other? Where else could my kids ki...