Today's mom has learned to adapt to a barrage of digital computerized appliances that would have scared the daylights out of Grandma. She's the family member who sets the digital alarm clock every night and the automatic coffee maker every morning.
Today's savvy Mom carries her own smart phone and she can be located quickly. But even with all this modern technology today's mass-transit world has made it almost impossible for modern moms to keep track of their mobile family's whereabouts. And today's Mom must deal with that old bugaboo "peer pressure" in a way grandma's generation never had to.