This mother seems very disrespectful of her son...
Her children are not her chattel to do with as she sees fit they are human beings with thoughts and feelings of their own that need to be respected.
Her children are not her chattel to do with as she sees fit they are human beings with thoughts and feelings of their own that need to be respected.
...to the point it makes me doubt how much truth there is to the story. It very much reads like a classical hero's journey - which "involves a hero [the mother] who goes on an adventure [tech-full parenting], and in a decisive crisis [lost her phone charger while finding herself in the middle of nowhere] wins a victory [has a deep moment of connection with her tech-rejecting son], and then comes home changed or transformed [see the last paragraph]."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey
(I still liked the story, though.)