Do you ever wonder how you can better connect as a family? I would hardly be the first person to suggest that disconnecting from everything else might be an answer. But then I inadvertently did just that last weekend.

The cause was my own ineptitude. Having recently upgraded our home Wi-Fi, I confidently asserted that the new router – which had arrived on Saturday morning – could be hooked up straight away. Yet I had failed to read the small print: the service didn’t start until Monday. And when we reconnected the old router, it was no longer recognised. A call to the provider offered no solution.

In its sudden absence, we felt the power of the internet more keenly than ever before. The children could not scroll social media on their tablets; Alexa fell silent; the........

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