Ep. 348: The Best and Worst Parts of Parenting
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In the special segment "Checkin' the Inbox," Shanna and Laura answer listener questions about the most rewarding and most challenging parts of parenting, the best kids' books they've read recently, how to prevent getting peed on during a diaper change and more! Also, Shanna reports on the surprising reason she got a day off of parenting, and Laura discusses her moment of panic at Disneyland. Finally, the moms share their BFPs and BFNs for the week. Shanna's kids are 6 and 9 years old, and Laura’s kids are 6 years old and 3.5 years old.
Topics discussed in this episode:
-Getting a day off from parenting
-Elle's 9th birthday
-Sebastian's 4th birthday
-Going to Disneyland with your family
-Best and worst parts of parenting during the newborn phase
-Best and worst parts of parenting during the toddler phase
-Best and worst parts of parenting during the school-age phase
-Great kids' picture books and chapter books
-How to help your child transition from preschool to Kindergarten
-How to handle being an "old" parent
-How to avoid getting peed on by your baby boy during diaper changes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. This week we have our weekly check-ins. We have our special segment, check in the inbox, where Shana and I reveal our BFPs and BFNs for each stage of childhood so far. And we close with our actual BFPs and BFNs for the week. Let's get started. |
| 0:29.1 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to episode 348. Hi, Shawna. Hello. Hello. Hello. Shall we get right to it? |
| 0:32.9 | I can't see why we shouldn't. All right, what were you up to this week? |
| 0:37.5 | A couple things to mention this week. First of all, it was Elle's actual birthday. |
| 0:39.5 | We had her party before. |
| 0:41.4 | So now she is officially nine. |
| 0:43.8 | And my mind is blown. And one of the cutest things about her turning nine is she is very keen on now being a tween. |
| 0:52.5 | Like she actually, she's like, what are the official ages of tween, Mama? And I'm like, |
| 0:57.4 | I don't know. So of course, I had to Google it and find out. And, you know, there's varying responses. |
| 1:02.0 | But in general, it seems from like nine to 12 is tween. And oh my word, it's awesome. She is owning it. |
| 1:10.8 | She feels like very grown up, very proud. So I now officially have a tween. Oh my goodness. You and your tweenager. That seems too early. Like it's what? So you only get a couple years of being a kid, kid. And then you have to be a tween? Yeah, I guess so. Like, kids are like four to |
| 1:29.7 | eight or, I guess. I don't know. But yeah, so my little tween, we celebrated her by going out to dinner |
| 1:40.1 | with the family. We went swimming, shit or swimming less in that day. And I don't know. It was |
| 1:44.9 | just relaxed and very celebratory. And it was a nice day. Well, I very vividly remember her being |
| 1:51.6 | born. I mean, I wasn't in the room. But you did just tell the story a couple weeks ago. And I was in the |
| 1:56.2 | room shortly after, I guess. And I just, yeah, nine years has flown by. She's such a wonderful young |
| 2:04.1 | lady. And I'm just so happy that she's growing into her tween agehood with such grace. |
| 2:09.9 | Yeah, me too. The other thing to mention this week is that I got a day off of parenting. |
| 2:17.4 | What? How? Oh, I got a day off of parenting. |
| 2:17.8 | What? |
| 2:18.5 | How? |
| 2:20.6 | Oh, I got food poisoning. |
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