I love my mom. She’s a smart, caring, and creative woman — and c’mon: She obviously did a killer job at the whole “raising me” thing.

Technology, though? It’s just not her forte. The best way to describe her relationship with smartphones, computers, and other such contraptions is one of reluctant and begrudging acceptance. And trust me: That’s putting it nicely.

My mom checks her email once every week or two, usually when I call and tell her that I sent something. She warily let me move her from a flip-phone to a smartphone in 2014, when the Moto E came out, and even let me upgrade her to the newer Moto G last year — but both decisions were driven mainly by the fact that the newer phones would make texting easier than what she had before.

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