My 9 Children Have Never Owned a Smartphone — 7 Rules My Hasidic Home Runs On Instead

Eight kids, no smartphones, and a house that still runs on time, not on screens. I lay out the seven house rules my family keeps instead of smartphones, starting with the phone going dark for Shabbos and a kosher phone standing in for the rest of the week. I show the corkboard, the landline on the kitchen wall, and the paper calendar that run this house, plus the nine smaller habits that grew up around the seven rules. By the end there's one hour a week when a phone comes out after all, and why a family this size is what makes every rule hold.