How to explain tech to your parents in five easy steps

The incredible frustration of teaching your mum and dad how to connect to Wi-Fi can result in family slanging matches. But fear not, we are to here to help "

Leo Tolstoy famously wrote: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." But that was before the advent of tech.

Now, family unhappiness is a stressed-out mother trying to work out how to send an emoji, and a dad repeatedly getting a Wi-Fi password wrong while his belligerent, unsympathetic teenagers lose all patience and end up screaming at him.