Voices: What my 12-year-old told me about WhatsApp groups changed my mind about a ban
Never has the generational divide been more apparent between me and my kids than when it comes to how to create a group on WhatsApp; swiping down on the home screen to turn down the brightness levels; or figuring out why the iPad is so slow (top tip: because you have too many tabs open. Take it from my seven-year-old).
Just the other night, I told my 12-year-old daughter that I didn’t know how to record the screen on my iPhone 12 – and as well as muttering “seriously?”, she (quick as anything) dived into my settings and sorted it out. Hey, Mum learned something new.
Why am I so behind when it comes to technology? And feel so old and wizened? Well, the easy answer is that I grew up in the dial-up modem generation; a
