Friend gets a new phone, gives you the old one. Neighbor has open wifi. Hide it deep in the giant pile of laundry in your bedroom.
Whack-a-mole is fun at an arcade. It's not fun when it's your kids.
That's still significantly better than having it available at the dinner table, no?
The goal of parenting is to raise good kids. Unfortunately, it's not always going to be fun.
We don't permit phones at the dinner table, no. Nor in the bedroom.
But we've learned things like "no Snapchat at all" make for a social pariah, which is frequently worse than the problem it's trying to solve.