Rebeccah Silence shares her family's phone-free Monday night, an idea that started with her 11-year-old. Start with a 2-hour window, collect phones in a bowl, and use prompts like "What's most important to you right now?" Consistency transforms relationships, even when it feels awkward at first.
It is about putting away your phones, but it's also about knowing what to do when you don't have your phone.
New survey has come out and people have actually admitted that they have missed very important things when it comes to their family because they've had their nose in their phone. Maybe give some tricks of the trade or maybe some, some ways to help people realize and remember to put the phone down and just to, just to be more present on a regular basis.
So I talked about this before, I believe, but on Monday nights in my house, there's no phones. One night a week. Yes. And it was actually the 11-year-old's idea to do this, to on Monday nights have dinner and no phones and play games and just be together. And it's been kind of game-changing. Yeah. Yeah. It's really kind of cool. So you might not have your kid asking for this, right? And if you ask them for it, you might get some disgruntled looks. And I don't want that to discourage you. Even if you ask your spouse and they're like, what? You want Do you want me to put my phone down one night a week? It could even just start with like a 2-hour window one night a week. And we have a bowl and we all take our phones and we sit down. It's gonna probably be messy and uncomfortable at first. And I just wanna acknowledge that if, if people are like, this isn't fun or giving you a hard time, that doesn't mean don't do it. Right? Right. So you can try a night a week and you can try these conversations. What's most important to you right now? What are you grateful for right now? What's hard? And is there any way I can support you? And game changer relationships.
