What worked for me: A radical "no", paired with a pre-paid IT service for parents. My mother now has a trusted guy in her town who'll fix up her IT devices twi

What worked for me: A radical "no", paired with a pre-paid IT service for parents. My mother now has a trusted guy in her town who'll fix up her IT devices twice a year instead of a son sitting a few thousand miles away and I can honestly say "I don't even do that for my mum!". Only downside: My mother is jealous because as a (retried) medical specialist she cannot just refer the rest of our family to "some guy in your town" ;)