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Radio 4,19 Dec 2023,13 mins
Parenting advice in the age of social media: Samira Shackle and Helen Oliver
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Since becoming a parent to a now-toddler, Samira Shackle has been bombarded with advice on social media - sometimes useful, sometimes not-so. She meets Helen Oliver, mother to two teenagers and school counsellor, to discuss navigating this online world and the affect it has on mothers, in particular. Samira Shackle is a journalist and the author of Karachi Vice: Life and Death in a Contested City. Produced by Eliza Lomas for BBC Audio, Bristol.
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