Ep. 326 - Helping Your Child Relax After a Bad Dream
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In the special segment "What the Hack?," Laura and Shanna share some of their favorite parenting tips and tricks, including ideas for encouraging your kids' independent play, helping your kids relax after having bad dreams and more. Also, Shanna reports on the newest addition to her family, and Laura talks about her 3-year-old's sudden swimming skills. Finally, they share their BFPs and BFNs for the week. Shanna's kids are 5.5 and 8.5 years old, and Laura’s kids are 5.5 years old and 3.5 years old.
Topics discussed in this episode:
-Exposing your kids to old-school technology
-Encouraging your kids to write stories
-When will my preschooler learn to swim?
-Parenting tips and tricks
-How to use a candle safely when you have kids
-Using Magnatiles in a creative way
-How to help kids get stickers off of sticker sheets
-Encouraging your kids' independent play
-Using task charts to motivate your kids
-How to handle clothes your kids have outgrown
-Ideas for handling your kids' bad dreams
-Improving your backyard
-Taking fun photos with your kids
This episode's full show notes can be found here.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shana and Laura. |
| 0:05.1 | This week we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:07.0 | We have our special segment, what the heck? |
| 0:09.3 | Where we share tips on encouraging independent play and helping kids with bad dreams. |
| 0:13.7 | And we close with our BFPs and BFNs for the week. |
| 0:16.3 | Let's get started. |
| 0:19.1 | Hello, everyone. |
| 0:20.2 | Welcome to episode 326. Hi, Shana. Hi. Hello, hello. Shall we get right to it and talk |
| 0:27.7 | about what's been going on with our kids and ourselves this week? Absolutely, because the big news in |
| 0:33.6 | our house is that Steve came home with another new member of the Yeager family. |
| 0:39.8 | Uh, did you get a third cat? Because this is getting a little out of control, Shana. |
| 0:45.9 | Let me send you a picture. Okay. Not that I have any problem with three cats. I just know that, |
| 0:51.8 | you know, you have a lot on your hands these days. So I do. I do. Okay, I just sent you a photo. Oh, this is the cutest thing I've ever seen. |
| 1:01.8 | It's the cutest hunk of metal I've ever seen in my entire life. I didn't say it was an |
| 1:08.1 | animate object. Yes. Okay, so I see a picture of your two girls looking at a Smith Corona typewriter from, gosh, I could not place what era this is from. |
| 1:19.9 | 60s, 70s? |
| 1:21.2 | Smells like it's from the 60s or 70s. |
| 1:23.6 | It definitely has that old-timey musk about it. You mean like it's been sitting in a room full of smokers for 30 years, that kind of thing? |
| 1:33.4 | Yes, very possibly. So I don't know where the fascination with typewriters came up, but Steve decided he really wanted to get the girls a typewriter. And so he found one on Facebook |
| 1:45.0 | Marketplace and for like $35. He's like, girls, I found a typewriter. It's $35. I'm going to |
| 1:51.0 | run out and get it. And Elle's eyes lit up. Her jaw dropped. And she was like, $35? Mama, |
| 1:57.9 | did you hear that? $35 for a device, for a literal device. |
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