While out to dinner last week with friends, we observed three families being seated around us; the six parents sat to one side of our table while their children sat at a large round table to the other side of us. We looked at that group of eight boys under 12 sitting unsupervised and visibly cringed. The looks on our face conveyed to each other that we all anticipated a certain amount of chaos and noise from that children’s table. I even said a quick prayer that the expected chaos would not influence the seven kids at our own table who were happily coloring on their paper menus. Several moments later, someone mentioned that it was really quiet at that all boy table. We glanced over and noticed no one at the table talking or moving. There was no goofing off, joking around or noise at all from them. To our surprise, each child held a handheld video game or phone. Throughout the entire dinner, this table of eight young boys remained silent, completely absorbed in their own