Ep. 333 - Solving Bedtime Bedlam
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In the special segment "Mom Wins," Laura and Shanna celebrate their recent parenting successes, diving into the topics of solving bedtime dysregulation and creating fruitful family fun. Also, Laura reports on her family's deep dive into fall activities, including a trip to a truly unique pumpkin patch, and Shanna opens up about her struggle to manage transitioning back to working in the office while also juggling parenting responsibilities. Finally, the moms 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:
-Taking your kids to the pumpkin patch
-How much does it cost to rent a Millennium Falcon bounce house?
-Struggling to manage being a working mom and handle the transition to returning to the office.
-Celebrating your parenting successes
-Growing your own pomegranates
-Using a creative solution to solve your kids' dysregulation at bedtime
-A TV show that's a great alternative to YouTube and TikTok for kids
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. |
| 0:05.3 | On this week's episode, we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:07.6 | We have our special segment, Mom Wins, where our patience and our creativity have been rewarded, |
| 0:12.7 | and we wrap it up with our weekly BFPs and BFNs. |
| 0:15.5 | Let's get started. |
| 0:18.6 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to episode 333.33. I love it. Hi, Laura. Hello. Yes. I don't know. I know nothing about numerology, but I feel like there's something magical about 333 altogether. Yeah, I think so, too. I think it's going to be a magical episode. So listeners, strap in. |
| 0:37.9 | It's going to be a good one. |
| 0:39.9 | You know, we always have three segments. |
| 0:43.1 | Oh, yes, yes, yes, exactly. |
| 0:47.3 | All right. |
| 0:47.7 | So let's start off the first of three with your check-in. |
| 0:52.1 | So the check-in this week is that we are knee-deep, neck-deep, ears-deep, eyeballs-deep in |
| 0:57.6 | fun fall activities over here. |
| 1:01.0 | Oh, fun. |
| 1:02.1 | Yeah, we are just really embracing the season and trying to do as much as we can to celebrate. |
| 1:08.8 | So that means we went to the pumpkin patch this week, which in Los Angeles means we went to |
| 1:15.1 | the Target parking lot. |
| 1:18.3 | Nice. |
| 1:19.2 | This may sound super depressing for those of you who don't live in big cities. |
| 1:25.4 | But our pumpkin patches tend to happen in parking lots where there's a lot of space. |
| 1:31.6 | And yes, there are like actual farms you can go out to you and have pumpkin patch situations. |
| 1:37.1 | But there is this one near us at the Eagle Rock Target that is truly a pumpkin patch at the bare minimum description of what a |
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