Last week my 11-year-old son casually dropped into conversation that he'd set up a WhatsApp Channel.
It wasn't a big announcement or some dramatic reveal. In fact, he seemed slightly confused by my reaction. Apparently some of his classmates had created their own channels, so he'd decided to have a go too.
My response was something along the lines of, "A WhatsApp what now...
"Isn't it unfair that perimenopause symptoms seem to start at exactly the same time as your kids' hormones?"
The words came out of my mouth while sitting on a sports hall bench after what should have been a completely ordinary parenting drama involving forgotten trainers.
At the time, I meant it as a joke.
But the more I thought about it afterwards, the more I...