Ep. 329 - Adventures, Antibiotics and the Apocalypse
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In the special segment "OMG I'm Freaking Out!" Shanna finds herself contemplating the apocalypse when she watches one of her kids' favorite shows, and Laura gets the willies when she imagines the upcoming phase in her kids' dental journey. Also, Laura reports on the spontaneous adventure she took with her 3-year-old, and Shanna reluctantly admits how she has backtracked on her resolve to simplify her family's life. 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:
-Going on spontaneous adventures with your kid
-Visiting the National History Museum in Los Angeles
-Should I sign my kids up for extracurricular activities?
-Worrying about the apocalypse when you're a mom
-The kids show Colossal Questions
-Handling overwhelm when you are a mom
-Ideas for getting your kid to take antibiotics when they hate the taste
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to Big Thought Positive with Shana and Laura. |
| 0:05.4 | On this week's episode, we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:07.8 | We have our special segment, OMG, I'm freaking out, where we dive into horrors big and small, |
| 0:13.6 | and we wrap it up with our weekly BFPs and BFNs. |
| 0:16.6 | Let's get started. |
| 0:19.4 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to the show. |
| 0:21.7 | This is episode 329. |
| 0:24.0 | And Laura, how you doing? |
| 0:26.3 | I am better now that I'm talking to you, Shana. |
| 0:28.9 | Yay, me too. |
| 0:30.6 | Me too. |
| 0:32.3 | Though, things have been good. |
| 0:33.7 | I don't have a lot to complain about this week. |
| 0:36.0 | This week, I basically just wanted to do a |
| 0:38.2 | quick little check-in about a fun adventure I had with Sebastian this weekend. So on Sundays, |
| 0:46.3 | Sebastian and Augie both have parkour class, but they're back to back. So Sebastian's is at 10, |
| 0:51.9 | and Augie's is at 11. And sometimes one parent will take both of |
| 0:56.8 | them and, you know, the other kid will just sit off to the side and do an activity or look at the |
| 1:02.7 | iPad, which, by the way, is not a good plan. We learned that one pretty quickly because the kid |
| 1:06.9 | in Parkour class just wants to come out and look at the iPad. iPad. Of course, of course. So we find some quiet activity for them to do. But, you know, I've |
| 1:16.9 | talked about how they've had a waning interest in participating in parkour class. It's been |
| 1:22.1 | harder to get them out the door. Yeah. And so Corey and I are like, okay, how can we |
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