I believe the solution is the following:
You solve it with your parents/grandparents. If every milennial solves it with their attached boomer counterpart, as millennials know how to deal with hard problems, it will solve most issues.
I dealt with my parents and grandparents myself. Talked everything through with them around 15 years ago. Got all my share from their wealth when the time came, cascading properly, through parents who cascaded further the shares I would get from them. With realtively even between grandkids and kids.
They knew the drill, we knew the drill. My greatest generation and boomer frictions are solved financially and respect-wise, many years ago.
What else could I ask for? I hope you guys will have that sorted for yourselves too!

In the past (almost a decade ago) I often intentionally took my dogs to a walk without my phone so I can be in the present with them. A good 20-40 min walk after work sniffing lamp posts and grass.
Then I found out there are podcasts and if I do not listen to one I feel I am missing out an opportunity to learn what is a fake feeling as I do not remember almost anything of what I listen to :D
So for a year now I try to get hooked off and even if I have my phone with me and walking or driving doing it in silence. Sometimes it is nice, but hard to get off the juice.
I like the watch-phone back-up idea.
I also tried to find a phone what has e-ink display, has 5G capability for GPS but does not support much else over maybe reading ebooks. No luck yet or maybe I just don't trust enough of the brands who currently provide something similar.

I totally get why people would say and believe this. Products feel good, looks fantastic, marketing is great, have a cult around. Indeed comfy and safe feeling.

I wanted to jump on this wagon but never had enough money to do so.
Never found a cheaper but as luxury feeling from any brand-environment, I thought I will find it with Samsung but it was somehow a bit off.

I am a big fan of one-stop-shop solutions. Just we would need those that aims to smaller groups also, not just the million sized ones.

Congrats to you both!

I can believe that, 100%.
I want to have a family farm and generally delusional, so I fit the pattern here. :)

I get the joke but I believe it is more dependent how much they learn and how hard they work in the awake hours than when they woke up in the past. 'Must' is a big motivator.

I love the oldschool Critters movie vibe!

I work for non-tech large corp as an Associate Director. It was a one time I pushed back to be present on a call starting from 6 pm with a client as I wanted to be with my kids (was vocal about it), due to the fact that professionally I assesed and I was not a must have. I got escalated to CEO level by the internal team, they took away the project instantly and had a few conversations about my place in the company. I was told I am not a team player and not flexible and many other things. After I worked day-and-night on other project and on calls whenever it was needed. A month later on my year end review I was praised by my questioned colleagues about how much a teamplayer I am.
I learned a very important lesson: Work is not family, I believed that so before.
What changed? I am on all calls whenever it is needed but parallel I am there for my kids as they are below camera level height as I work from a standing desk. Mic is strictly off unless I need to speak. This is the way until I can work on my own. There it might get tricky as they will be bigger and they might get an assistant seat (if interested) on similar calls to learn and to give me their input as they will see the world differently.

Great idea! Let's see how it unfolds.

I grew up that way.
My father barbequed in a parking lot in front of our garage at least once a week for years. The garage was in front of a 4 storey building with 30+ apartments in it. When a neighbor passed he greeted them had a chat and invited them to join frequently if not all the time. 80% of them never joined, 10% very rarely and just 10% regularly.
We also had people eating with us this way who just had garage in the same line or ran local shops and such. He really tried his best to be part of the community but not many people wanted to join. Most people we had were working class, some intellectuals but all around the same economic background.
It was great to grow up that way! It is interesting to reflect on it, how it was in Eastern Europe in the 90s.