"Left behind" is the phrase I hear most often from parents in this exact spot, and I think it's the wrong frame entirely. Nothing left without you. The tools are still sitting right there, unchanged, waiting for whenever you're ready to open them — there's no train that already departed.
What actually happened is that the early explanations of AI were written by and for people who already understood computers, and that left a real gap for everyone else. Parents especially, because you're busy running a household and don't have time to decode a tutorial full of jargon just to write a better school email.
A course built for this situation should do a few specific things: start with zero assumed knowledge, use real parent-life examples instead of generic ones, and move at a pace that respects you have about ten spare minutes a day, not a free weekend to binge lessons.
That's the actual design behind On Ramp AI. Short lessons, five to ten minutes each, built around real situations — writing to a teacher, planning a family trip, understanding a form from your kid's school, keeping up when your teenager mentions something AI-related at dinner.
You're not behind. You just haven't had the right on-ramp yet. Here's one built for exactly this.