Teenager are terminally detached from.,especially their parents and other relatives. That's what teenagers do. Having raised kids, we now have grand kids, and there is something special about them relative to being their parents and raising them.. We grand parents can actually watch them go through the stages of growing up since there are no distracts of just plain raising them Oldest one is 14, and we have seen a marked change in the past couple of years. The kid is a lot more moody and detached from when he was a "happy-go-lucky, cute little kid" The second one, three years younger, is starting to show the same signs as his older brother. They just seem as though they are on a different planet sometimes.
Oh, and BTW, there is no such thing as "there is too much electronics" in our lives, but there is surely too much of the wrong kinds and use of electronics in many cases.