[TeMPOraL]

Yup. I cringed for most of the article, but the ending does significantly change how it all sounds.

...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.)

[iddan]

You can frame every story like that

[TeMPOraL]

Not every - there are multiple recognized story archetypes; "hero's journey" is just one of them. My point however is that stories are always unlike real life, and this article reads very much like a story.