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Postcards From Midlife

Help your teens stay safer online with these social media tips all parents need to know

Postcards From Midlife

Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin

Midlife Women, Women, 579985, Nutrition, Kids & Family, Midlife, Health & Fitness, Health, Relationships, Mental Health, Menopause, Culture, Fitness, Perimenopause, Lifestyle

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Trish and Lorraine chat with psychologist Dr. Linda Papadopoulos, an expert on adolescent mental health, and Tara Hopkins, Global Director of Public Policy at Meta, which oversees Instagram and Facebook, about how parents can work with their teens aged 13-18 to stay safer on social media. In the show we learn exactly how Instagram's Teen Accounts work and how to use all the safety features from Hidden Words to the time limits function. The duo also find out how you can chat to your teens about bullying and what they see online, as well as how to check-in on their Insta activity, manage the content they’re seeing, and start conversations to avoid rows about screen time.



This special episode is brought to you by Meta and Instagram’s Teen Accounts. If you want to find out more then go to  instagram.com/teenaccounts


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0:00.0

This special episode is brought to you by Meta and Instagram's teen accounts.

0:14.3

So here we are, Lorraine, in September.

0:17.7

We're kind of well into September now.

0:19.3

So the whole back-to to school vibes, that whole

0:21.9

getting ready for autumn. It's a new season. I kind of feel like I'm quite comfortable with that now.

0:27.2

Are you there? Have you kind of come to terms with it all, all the changes that happen at this time of year?

0:32.5

Have you got your vests ready? They're ready to go. Your little autumn to winter vest, which get thicker and thicker

0:40.1

as the months go by. The seasons move on. I am ready. I'm ready for everything. I'm mostly ready

0:48.1

because as we record, this is the week I start to prepare to say goodbye to my son, number three, off to university.

0:56.8

So that's a strange and emotional time.

1:00.3

I tell you what I did find, which is super helpful for anyone looking for things on social media for their students.

1:06.8

I found this account called Five o'clock apron, which is absolutely brilliant. It's Claire Thompson and it's all student recipes. And guess what, Trish, you know what a shockingly hopeless cook I am. I've been doing all the recipes. Oh, it's been really good. Really simple stuff. Yes. Yeah, what kind of things? What kind of things? What have you made? A boiled egg? There's that, but it's potatoes.

1:29.0

It's all the kind of chunky stuff that you get in tins and you have to cook a lot of and, you know, pre-freezing it for the whole week. So I've been trying to nudge my son to do a bit of cooking. He's quite attached to his air fryer as you know. And I've been doing something else this week, Trish, which you have rediscovered.

1:45.8

I've been cycling because there's been a tube strike in London. I've been out and about on my bike. I've remembered to wear my helmet this time because we did tell that story about my, several times I forget to put my helmet on. But how's your spin class going? It's really good. I've done four now,

2:01.8

four weeks in a row, and I'm getting better and better and better. It's quite amazing, actually.

2:07.0

I surprised myself. But one of the other reasons that I didn't mention last week about why I was going

2:12.2

was I watched one of, dear old Michael Mosley, you know, they've had his last thing that he recorded

2:18.1

before he died. And there was an 82-year-old cyclist, this guy who cycles up Box Hill in

2:24.5

Surrey, if you know it, it's so steep. Every day. And they did all these tests on these old

2:29.6

cyclists and they're all invincible, Lorraine. I mean, talk about your project gladiator from earlier this

2:35.0

year. It's all about cycling if you want to be invincible and really strong. But I'm really noticing

2:40.3

the difference in my fitness, which is really good. Of course, it's only one of a mix of things with

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