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  • ilinamorato@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    20 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.worldEnglish
      3·
      19 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.

      • ilinamorato@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 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.

        • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          6 hours ago

          and the kids don’t have phones.

          So just the two of you?

          Also, if you do end up sharing a digital calendar on a device you already have, what is the fridges for?

          • ilinamorato@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            4 hours ago

            My wife and I have phones where we keep our shared calendars, yes. But we have four kids who also have their own lives and schedules, and they often want to know what’s going on, what our plans are, etc. They would value being able to see the day’s upcoming events, too; when the play dates are, when the dentist appointments are, when the days off of school are, what we’re eating for dinner, all of that. Currently, their only access to that information is through our phones.

            Having a screen in the kitchen that only shows calendars and a couple of other pieces of data would be useful. We wouldn’t want to be able to watch videos or browse websites on it, though.