Ep. 358: Unhinged Parenting Hacks
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In the special segment "What the Hack?," Shanna and Laura share some of their favorite parenting tips and tricks, including ideas for cleaning up toys, improving bath time, encouraging cooperation and more! Also, Shanna reports on her questionable attempt to make her husband's life easier, and Laura talks about a big shakeup in her 6-year-old's extracurricular activity schedule. 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:
-Involving the whole family in big, impulsive decisions
-Knowing when to adjust your child's extracurricular activity schedule
-Tips, tricks and hacks for making parenting easier
-Tricks for cleaning toys, playrooms and kids' bedrooms
-How to easily tie balloons
-Ideas for getting your kids to cooperate during times of transition
-Family time in the backyard
-Date night with your partner
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. |
| 0:05.2 | This week, we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:07.2 | We have our special segment, what the heck? |
| 0:09.4 | Where we share some genius tips to get your kids to cooperate and to clean your playroom. |
| 0:14.3 | And we close with our BFPs and BFNs for the week. |
| 0:16.8 | Let's get started. |
| 0:19.1 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to episode 358. Shana, are you on the line? |
| 0:24.2 | Yes, of course. Hello, hello. Hello. I'm reaching you all the way across the San Fernando Valley, |
| 0:31.3 | and I'd love to find out what you've been up to this week. Well, this week, I attempted to make my husband's life a little easier this Saturday, and I'm going to check in on that. Well, that's very wifely of you. He woke up not feeling great, a little under the weather, a little blue, just kind of not, you know, one of those days. Nothing serious, just one of those days. Like, ugh. And I was like, all right, we've got a day |
| 0:54.3 | ahead of us. We've got choir. I've got to go pick up some stuff that I bought at World Market, and I arranged it so it's over by the choir. Like, I'll take the kids. We'll do this day. You stay here and take it easy. Make your life easier. He's like, great. Lovely. What a gift. Such a gift. So I take the girls to choir, which is |
| 1:12.5 | kind of across town. And after choir, I was like, girls, we need to stop by World Market and pick up |
| 1:20.2 | my order because, you know, I'm doing my backyard refresh and I got like a cool patio umbrella and a rug |
| 1:26.4 | and a few things that I wanted to decorate the yard. |
| 1:29.5 | So we go over to this shopping complex that we've never been to before because it's on the |
| 1:33.8 | other side of town and we pop into World Market and of course we shop around and look for stuff. |
| 1:40.0 | And by the time we're done shopping, we're all very thirsty. |
| 1:46.0 | And for some reason that day, I just wasn't on my game. |
| 1:49.2 | Like usually I bring a ton of water to choir and snacks and all this stuff. |
| 1:53.5 | And I just didn't bring enough that day. |
| 1:55.6 | So we couldn't have even gone back to the car to get water before going home or anything. |
| 2:00.4 | And so after we leave World Market, |
| 2:02.9 | the girls are like, we're thirsty. And I'm like, I know I am too. I think there's a target |
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