We talked about bitcoin today on the phone. She asked me if she gave me 30 dollars if I could invest it for her. I explained the volility of the coin that we could go from 100 to zero just like that. She still wants to put in 30.
That tells me while we may not be mainstream yet, we are getting there.
I think you can ask your mother to install bitcoin wallet on her android phone so after you buy bitcoin for her, you can send it directly to her android phone. and don't forget to not use that bitcoin if the price is not increase higher and tells her that not to get panic if somehow the price is droped like yesterday. make sure that you can explain the easy things about bitcoin so your mother can know about bitcoin and don't have to use her bitcoin for another things except to keep that bitcoin.