Hey everybody. Welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. This is our fourth bonus episode about parenting during the coronavirus pandemic. So let's get started with our check-ins. Laura, what's going on? You guys are still in isolation, I assume. What's going on? How are you feeling? What have you been up to?

Well, we've just kind of fallen into a routine, which I think is good. I've been reading Janet

Lansbury's book about toddler discipline called No Bad Kids, which you recommended. And one of the

things she recommends is, you know, kids really need routine. And in the book, it's so funny, it was like in the intro,

I think. She was talking about how toddlers really thrive when they are at home. Like, and, you know,

it's great to plan activities, but honestly, what you should really be doing is staying home as much

as possible. Perfecto. Oh, my gosh. Check off that list. Like, I got it. No more activities

for us. So, yeah, we stay in our little radius. We do go on little walks in the neighborhood,

but that's it. And this week, we've definitely ramped up. So we're basically wrapping up our

fourth week of, you know, my husband working from home. And we've been in three weeks of mandatory social distancing in California. But it's been four weeks of like in practice because people were starting early.

We started a week before, I think. Well, most places of business shut down before they were forced to, it seems. So we're on

week four, three or four, depending on who you are. And so it's been interesting. I feel like

this week I've really ramped up, or I guess in the last two weeks, because we skipped an episode

last week, right? Because we have also discovered that it's not that interesting to talk

about what you're doing when all you're doing is staying home. So we decided to take a week off.

But one thing that's changed is that I'm becoming like a maniac when it comes to sanitizing

anything that like comes into the house. So we're no longer doing like runs out to the store if we can avoid it.

We are getting deliveries, which, you know, I have such mixed feelings about because

it's offsetting the risk to someone else who, you know, is a low wage employee and is it

the right thing to do and blah, blah, blah.

So I'm like super conflicted about everything. My way of

absolving myself is by tipping extraordinarily well, like making it really worth their while and

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