To stave off smartphones, parents answer the landline’s call: ‘I can’t recommend it highly enough’

Millennial and Gen X parents who spent their teenage years stretching spiral phone cords into their bedrooms and talking ...
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They want their kids to have a social life — just not a smartphone. So they're buying landlines.

Landlines from companies like Tin Can allow kids to chat with their friends without all the distracting apps and pings of a smartphone. (Photo illustration: Nathalie Cruz/Yahoo News; photo: Courtesy ...