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Dinner time: Surrender your cell phones to dad

Molly Wood May 13, 2013
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Dinner time: Surrender your cell phones to dad

Molly Wood May 13, 2013
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Does your family have rules for tech at the dinner table? Before meals, one father makes his children surrender their mobile phones to him — even his adult children in their twenties.

Janell Burley Hofmann is a Cape Cod mother of five who helps us understand how to behave with technology. She tells Marketplace Tech host Ben Johnson how one family handles tech etiquette.

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