“To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them…"
-George Mason”
(Father of ‘The Bill of Rights’)
Don’t poke the bear!
Meals around the table were a staple of life for us. Do people even sit around the kitchen table any more?
Not a rhetorical question … not as often as they should; without their heads buried in their phones
We do Bruh! Sis and I, Every night, dining room table (or our separate Couches (Living room)
No phones, No 'puters Then after clean-up we tend to play cards (12 Crowns—sort of ‘Rummy’)
- “If you just communicate, you can get by. But if you communicate skillfully, you can work miracles.”
– Jim Rohn, author, speaker and entrepreneur
Yes, though not a kitchen table,… a dining room table.
Not as often as I’d like, but yeah I will sit with my boys and enjoy a meal and some conversation.
More like the kitchen counter for wife and me.
I consciously put away the cellphone.
‘What’s a Cellphone?’--------- Sasquatch. 
When I was a child (one of five) the supper table was sacred. No excuses, face and hands washed, no elbows on the table, please and thank you, TV off, and clean your plate.
These days, my wife, adult daughter, and I sit down together for supper. We even changed our traditional suppertime to accommodate daughter’s work schedule. We eat late, but we eat together. No phones/devices at table.
I suppose I should have known that a lot of us in this community did just that, now if we could share the practice with the latest generation we could make some real progress…
We do as often as we can. Got one away at college. Great to have him home for the summer.
Phones are a constant battle like many have suggested. However, my son calls me almost every week day while at college. So there are some good aspects to technology. Not arguing the point though.
It’s a … oh never mind …
Seems you forgot to mention taking off your hat 
That would require some critical thinking and a great deal of restraint in not asking “why?” …or … “what for?” … and then an attempted reply without “It’s like … ya know …”
We weren’t “hat” people, so it was never an issue. We did have a rule about “no reading” at the table, so there was that.
The only thing we could read at breakfast was the back of the cereal box after we made a privacy screen out of three of them
OMG Dude, you just brought back some wonderful memories…
Read the same thing every morning
Rank did have it’s privilege back then … da old man got away with reading the morning paper … at least until ma starting taking practice swings with the cast iron 