Ep. 108: When Setting Toddler Limits Feels Limitless
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In the brand new segment “Throwback,” Shanna and Laura tell stories from their own childhoods about fake curls and fake friends, and they reflect on how those situations influence their parenting today. Also, Laura talks about the exhaustion that comes from constantly setting limits with her toddler, and Shanna reports on her toddler’s increased independence and over-the-top tantrums. Finally, they reveal their BFPs and BFNs for the week. Shanna’s toddler is 18 months old, and Laura’s toddler is 17 months old.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shana and Laura. |
| 0:05.1 | On this week's episode, we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:07.4 | We have a brand new special segment called Throwback, where we tell stories from our childhood about fake curls and fake friends. |
| 0:14.2 | And we wrap it up with our weekly BFPs and BFNs. |
| 0:17.8 | Let's get started. |
| 0:20.0 | Hi, welcome to episode 108. Hey, Laura, how are you doing? Hi, Shana. |
| 0:24.5 | I'm good. Good. What's going on with you guys? How old is your little one? He is 17 months and |
| 0:30.2 | three weeks. And yeah, this week, I don't know, I feel like we're in toddler land, like, |
| 0:37.2 | in big flashing neon letters, you know. |
| 0:40.9 | Like the Vegas of parenties? |
| 0:43.5 | Yeah. I feel like it's very, like, it's a very fun time. But right now, I'm having this feeling like so much of my day is setting limits. Oh. And I'm finding it just really exhausting |
| 0:59.5 | right now. So we've made our house as baby-proofed, I think, as possible for the moment. It's an |
| 1:06.3 | ongoing process, as you know. They can't reach on top of a table and then suddenly they're tall enough to reach and you're like, well, okay, I guess I can't put anything on this table anymore, that sort of thing, right? Right. Work in progress. Yes. But as far as like, you know, the configuration of our house, I think we've kind of maxed out what we can do to keep it safe for the baby. So we've like moved the coffee table that |
| 1:30.1 | was dangerous off into the corner and kept it away from him. And, you know, we've cleared out all |
| 1:35.0 | the space for him to run around and have a play mat in the middle and all the cabinets and |
| 1:39.6 | doors on things are secured. And it's as-proofed as it gets except we have a couch |
| 1:45.6 | and we have a console table behind that couch right which he rolled off of recently he sure did |
| 1:53.0 | he rolled off of it and he's really like he knows that it's a thing that gets my attention |
| 1:57.8 | so when i have to be in the kitchen, which is right next door, |
| 2:02.3 | like it's an open floor plan house. Yeah. It's right there. So it's like right on the other side |
| 2:07.3 | of a baby gate. He, if I have to do like anything in the kitchen, he will like end up on top of |
| 2:14.2 | the console table because he knows that gets me back into the living room. And I'm |
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