Parents are increasingly relying on elaborate calendar systems to keep track of their families’ activities – from a shared calendar or paper planner to high-end devices that can create a calendar for you by scraping data from your emails. Some parents say it helps them better involve their teen children in scheduling their lives; for others, they feel themselves becoming beholden to their calendars – a draconian digital personal assistant. Zosia Bielski is The Globe’s time use reporter. She joins us to talk about how families are using technology to try to ease the mental load , and what these ever-evolving calendar systems reveal to us about how we value our time. Questions? Comments? Ideas? E-mail us at
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