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We all have computers because each of us needs to do work at the same time. One computer doesn't cut it. we have 2 HS students, a MS student and both DH and I work.[/quote]

You have 5 computers and 5 phones in one house?  Good lord.  Do you even talk to each other face to face?[/quote]

Wow, PP, why so hostile? We had one computer and two phones in the house until two years ago: my laptop, my blackberry, and the landline (which I kept mainly for 911 service). This was me (single mom) plus two kids. Then I remarried, making us a 2 laptop, 4 phone house: we added my husband plus his laptop, his Iphone (personal phone) and his (issued by employer) blackberry. Then both my kids hit middle school and the school made it clear that they would need computer access to complete most of their homework, so we got two more cheap laptops, which live in the living room. This now makes us a four person, four computer, four phone household -- and it's true that there is generally a period immediately before dinner during which we are all working, the kids on homework and my husband and me clearing out work emails. Then we all eat dinner together and hang out-- gasp, talking, reading books and playing games -- until bedtime.

PP, what makes you think you have any insight into how other people live their lives? I can tell you from personal experience that some families have a ton of gadgets and spend a ton of time together talking and laughing, while other families (my own in childhood, for instance) own not a single gadget -- including no TV -- and never speak to each other.  Families can be functional or disfunctional, but I promise that gadget-free families are no more functional than any others.[/quote]

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