Ep. 357: Blood, Sweat and Tears
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In the special segment "Dear Past Me," Laura and Shanna turn back time to give their former selves parenting advice based on what they know now, including wisdom about family pets and household appliances. Also, Shanna and Laura report on epic play dates that were longer, messier and more emotional than they had anticipated. 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:
-What to do with your kids on a day off of school
-Having a play date at an indoor playground
-Managing your child's tween friendship drama
-Taking your dog to obedience training
-Clever idea for getting your kid to transition to bath and bedtime
-Going to the Tank Museum with your kids
-Getting your kids to throw away trash when they are in your car
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. On this week's episode, we have our weekly |
| 0:06.8 | check-ins. We have our special segment, Dear Past Me, where we give our old selves advice about puppy |
| 0:12.8 | problems and transition terrors, and we wrap it up with our weekly BFPs and BFNs. Let's get started. |
| 0:20.6 | Hello, everyone. Welcome to episode 357. Ooh, loving those odd |
| 0:25.6 | number, 357. Hi, Laura. Hi, Shauna. It's making me think of mahjong hands. There's like a bunch of |
| 0:32.4 | mahjong hands that do 357s. And I've got mahjong on the brain I guess yeah yeah I guess you do to me it reminds me |
| 0:40.1 | my kids skip counting they both like you know been learning skip counting in school and it's like |
| 0:44.8 | three five seven nine whatever so yes it evokes different thoughts for each of us anyway moving |
| 0:50.9 | on shall we start this 357 episode with your check-in? |
| 0:55.1 | I guess we should. |
| 0:57.2 | I mean, it's what we do every odd-numbered show. |
| 0:59.8 | I do the honors and start us off. |
| 1:00.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:10.2 | And honestly, I'm just going to check in about a thing that you're going to know all about because I was with you during what I'm going to talk about, which is we had Monday off. |
| 1:32.6 | It was Caesar Chavez Day, which we celebrate here in California, which is awesome. And it was just a random Monday, though, that we had off, that we had to figure out what to do with ourselves and our kids. And we had been chatting at some point and you were like, well, I'm thinking about taking the kids to kids empire. You want to come up and join us? I was like, yes, I do. We've never been there. And I need to do something with these kids. Yes. And our little trip to kids empire turned into an all-day |
| 1:39.5 | spontaneous play date where we literally went from location to location to location together |
| 1:46.9 | and it was so awesome. |
| 1:50.2 | Yeah, it was so fun. |
| 1:52.1 | I'm so glad you were able to come up because Caesar Chavez Day really snuck up on me. |
| 1:56.3 | I was not like mentally prepared to do anything on that Monday with children. |
| 2:00.2 | And so I was like, |
| 2:01.3 | ah, kids empire's great. Let them run around. So yay. I'm so glad you were able to join us. |
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