Ep. 355: Telling Your Kids the Truth: Santa, Sex and More
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Laura and Shanna reveal the funny and unusual things they've asked the internet recently in the special segment "What I Googled This Week," diving into the topics of sex education and DIY projects. Also, Laura discusses the surprise that turned her family's trip to the botanical garden from dreary to delightful, and Shanna reports on how she handled her 9-year-old's direct line of questioning about Santa Claus. 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 4 years old.
Topics discussed in this episode:
-Vestibular migraines
-Unexpected play dates
-St. Patrick's day, leprechauns and leprechaun traps
-When your child wants to know the truth about Santa
-DIY projects and ideas you have as a parent
-Sex education books for young kids
-Loog guitars
-Taking your kids to live theater
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shana and Laura. |
| 0:05.2 | On this week's episode, we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:07.3 | We have our special segment, What I Googled this week, where Laura and I go down research rabbit holes that overwhelm us and embarrass us. |
| 0:14.3 | We wrap it up with our weekly BFPs and BFNs. |
| 0:16.9 | Let's get started. |
| 0:19.6 | Hello, hello, hello, everyone. |
| 0:21.3 | It's episode 355. |
| 0:23.2 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:24.4 | And hey, Laura. |
| 0:25.6 | Hey, Shauna. |
| 0:26.8 | Hi. |
| 0:28.1 | How are you all doing this beautiful 355th episode? |
| 0:33.6 | For the 3505th time, we're doing a mixed bag, I guess. No, we're doing well, but I did have a sort of low light and a highlight of this week that I want to check in on. |
| 0:45.2 | Okay, makes me think of how I get my hair done. |
| 0:49.2 | My highlights and my low lights. |
| 0:50.9 | You got the foils? |
| 0:52.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:52.9 | Yeah, here's the foils. |
| 0:54.5 | All right. |
| 0:55.9 | What do you want first? |
| 1:14.9 | The good one or the bad one? Let's go. Let's go. Let's go bad. Okay. That's what I was thinking. Okay. So the bad one was just that I got a terrible migraine in the middle of the week this week. And it was one I haven't had before, which was a vestibular migraine. |
| 1:19.7 | Have you ever gotten one of those special, wonderful, just glorious migraines? |
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