How much should we tell our children?
Mimo Bray suggests knowledge is power for children when it comes to adult-coded taboos – and we should educate them about menopause while they’re young

Menopause is one of the natural cycles of change, like slowly losing 20 milk teeth in return for 32 adult ones. But the burden
of 103 tsunami-force symptoms, beset by taboos, ravages women’s vital life-forces such that some become strangers to themselves, family, employers and society. Some even take their own lives.
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