• ilinamorato@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    We’re a family of six, and the kids don’t have phones. It’s tough to coordinate schedules already and it’s only going to get worse.

    I recognize that I’m an edge case.

    • TehWorld@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      You’re not an edge case. My family isn’t that large but we still have challenges with this exact thing.

      There’s a screen device that my wife gets incessantly advertised to her that is probably a better option than it being built into a fridge that has been engineered to last 3 weeks longer than the warranty.

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        2 hours ago

        We’ve tried paper. And dry-erase. The problem is that we keep our calendars and todos and schedules on our phones, which don’t automatically update the paper; and by the second week, we tend to just stop manually updating it. There’s a paper calendar in my office that I just flipped to October last week (from August).

        The only way that really seems to work, where we don’t forget an event, is having a single digital shared calendar.