A dinner table with no phones on it can fix what a week of texting from the next room couldn’t.

Attention has to be in the same room to do its work. Messages from down the hall keep everyone informed and nothing accumulates, because the unplanned parts of a conversation, the pauses and the tangents, only happen when people sit together with nothing else running. Half an hour of that repairs more than a week of updates.

Suggest one meal this week with everybody at the table and phones somewhere else. Do not turn it into a lecture or a policy. Be the person who starts it and see how the room changes.