Ep. 369: What Is the Tooth Fairy's Going Rate?
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In the special segment "Throwback," Shanna turns back time to tell the story of the time she made a mortifying mistake at her college job and turned to her mom for help. Also, Laura talks about the surprising incident that knocked out her 6-year-old's first tooth, and Shanna discusses how her daughters were seemingly typecast in their musical theater production. Finally, the moms share their BFPs and BFNs for the week. Shanna's kids are 6.5 and 9 years old, and Laura’s kids are 6.5 years old and 4 years old.
Topics discussed in this episode:
-When your kid doesn't get a good role in their play
-How much money does the Tooth Fairy give for a lost tooth?
-Shanna's story about humiliating herself at her college office job
-Parenting your kids when they make mistakes and learn lessons the hard way
-Going to a sing-along movie screening with preschoolers
-Having an unexpected celebrity sighting in Los Angeles
-The best way to get gum out of your kid's hair
Products, links, resources mentioned in this episode:
-Core Power chocolate protein shakes that Auggie loves
-Vidiots Non-Profit Video Store
-"Encanto at the Hollywood Bowl" on Disney+
-TikTok from @mabrowsandhair about the BEST way to get gum out of hair
Past BFP episodes mentioned in this episode:
-Ep. 170 (For Shanna's story about removing permanent marker from her daughter's face)
This episode's full show notes can be found here.
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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 check-ins. |
| 0:08.0 | We have our special segment, Broback, where I tell a story about my first experience with corporate culture and how my mom saved my ass, literally. |
| 0:16.2 | And then we wrap it up with our weekly BFPs and the FNs. Let's get started. |
| 0:21.9 | Hello, everyone. Welcome to episode 369. |
| 0:30.3 | Laura, Laura, Laura, never missed an opportunity for a 69 cackle. |
| 0:36.0 | It's once every two years, Shana. |
| 0:38.3 | Like, you got to give it to me. |
| 0:40.8 | It's all yours, my friend. |
| 0:42.3 | It's all yours. |
| 0:44.0 | Okay, will you give us your check-in for this week? |
| 0:46.1 | I will. |
| 0:47.3 | The girls started summer camp number two this week, which is their musical theater camp, |
| 0:52.6 | which they have done in the past. And they are |
| 0:56.0 | starting it back up again this week. Oh, fun. Yes. I remember it very well from last year. |
| 1:01.0 | I remember they did some kind of Disney-themed musical or there were Disney-themed characters. I just |
| 1:07.2 | remember Elle was Jasmine for some reason. Yes. Good memory. Yeah, last year they did Aladdin. She was not Jasmine in that one. They also did Frozen. She was Princess Jasmine in Frozen. Oh, yeah, yeah, of course. Yeah, she makes a cameo. Everyone knows that, right? Everyone does. Yeah, everyone knows that. But actually, that leads in perfectly to what I was going to talk about in regards to the camp, is that casting for the show is always a huge deal, right? |
| 1:36.1 | It happens like the fourth day of camp. |
| 1:39.1 | And the director adds all these parts to the play. |
| 1:43.1 | This time they're doing The Descendants, which is like a Disney |
| 1:46.9 | original movie. I had never seen it. I didn't really know what to expect. But I was pretty sure |
| 1:52.7 | that like Princess Elsa is not in the descendants. And Princess Anna and Jasmine. So she adds all |
| 2:00.3 | these characters, right, so that every single child can have some named part to make them feel good. |
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