If you're in multiple text threads with different people in your life — your family, your partner, your kid's teacher — it can be hard to stay on top of your messages. Who should you respond to first?

Actual text I recently got from my teen daughter: “nooooi those dotty bits on eyelids lowk annoyinghagsh n can you get calrisuns or smth.” All I’d asked was if she needed anything from the store, ...