New Delhi, May 8 -- There was a time not long ago when a ringing phone meant something. A call meant urgency. Importance. Now, try calling your Gen Z child and you'll hear the dial tone fade into oblivion before the call is quietly cut. No call back. Just a crisp text in three words at most.

"Everything okay?"

"Am busy. Text?"

And that's that.

As parents, we're left clutching our phones like confused boomers in a meme. The natural instinct is to roll our eyes, sigh like dramatic 80s cinema parents, and say something that starts with "In our time." and ends with a lecture on human connection and invariably 'gratitude'.

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