Why do moms suddenly turn into tech illiterate pre-schoolers the minute the reach the age of like 35?
Essentially we have two TV’s. The big one is in the living room, and then I have a small one in my room. The fire stick we’d been using for the big one broke a long time ago and since I was the only one who ever used it, we just never replaced it and I took the DVD player up to my tv (mostly because I both bought it, and all of our DVD’s, and I have an actual TV stand in my room with shelves to store them properly).
Now recently my mom’s been freaking out over the fact that the TV isn’t working, despite the fact that I’ve told her several times that it hasn’t for a while. I don’t know why, she has never used it before. Now granted I am self taught, but I’m the relative ‘tech expert’ in the family due to a combination of aggressive googling and pressing buttons until it works.
So naturally, my mother decided to, without asking me what would work for that TV, buy a second hand DVD player. You’d think it would be fine, except not only does that TV not have a remote, but she didn’t check if the player came with a remote before buying it. The thing doesn’t even have buttons on the front, so she can’t use it.
Not only that, it isn’t compatible with our TV, since it in order to get it working it needs to plugged in not only to HDMI and the outlet, but some other thing that our TV straight up does not have (I checked the back over inch by inch, there are no holes that would fit that plug shape). She basically spent like $150 on a shiny brick, and now she won’t even admit that it doesn’t work, and refuses to ask the people she bought it from if she can return it, because why would she. That would be easy.
Anyway, this whole situation has left me wondering, because my mom lived fully on her own in the 2000’s. She had a DVD player and cable back then, she knows how they work because she had to literally set them up herself in her apartment, assumedly multiple time. Or she should. If anything this is exactly her area of tech expertise, and yet she can’t even fathom the idea that two pieces of tech are incompatible, and she calls me every time she gets locked out of her email or Amazon account.
To put it bluntly, when exactly is it that parents become completely tech illiterate, and how can I like reverse it or something, cause this is getting old and I don’t want to be 40 fielding calls from my mom all day about how to wire transfer a Nigerian prince all her money.
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