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The Key To Getting Off Your Phone Is Returning To The Hobbies You Did As A Kid

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Indie Studios LLC/Moment/Getty Images“I think I’m going to get into beading,” I said to my husband as we sat on the couch together in the post-bedtime slump. After we get our 4-year-old to bed, sometimes with a fight, we crash in the living room together and just enjoy the sound of silence. In telling him, I was mostly preparing him for the number of packages that were about to arrive in the mail bearing beads, tiny pliers, and little gold doodads. “I want something to do when my brain is tired that isn’t scrolling on my phone.”“Like a hand hobby?” he said. “Yes! Exactly. A hand hobby,” I repl...

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