Ep. 371: Ouch! Facing the Pain of Parenthood
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In the special segment "Never Have I Ever: Parenting Edition," Shanna and Laura reveal funny and unexpected things they've never done before having kids, including incidents that hurt their bodies as well as their egos. Also, Laura goes on an adventure with her mom friends that feels all wrong without her kids there, and Shanna eavesdrops on a conversation that ignites her competitive spirit. 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:
-Taking a tour of the WB lot in Los Angeles
-Feeling bad when you do fun things without your kids
-When you realize other parents are taking children's activities very seriously
-Doing scavenger hunts... in public... alone
-Accidentally hurting yourself when you're a mom
-How to wash LEGO
-Seeing food delivery robots in your neighborhood
-Wondering when your kid will be able to swim independently
Products, links, and resources mentioned in this episode:
-World Market scavenger hunt TikTok video
Past BFP episodes mentioned in this episode:
-Ep. 358 (For Shanna's hack about washing small toys in the bathtub)
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. |
| 0:05.3 | On this week's episode, we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:07.4 | We have our special segment, Never Have I Ever, Parenting Edition, where, |
| 0:11.3 | meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, don't worry, it'll make sense later. |
| 0:15.2 | And we wrap it up with our weekly BFPs and BFNs. |
| 0:17.7 | Let's get started. |
| 0:27.8 | Hello, everyone. Welcome to episode 371. Hi, Laura. Hi, Shana. Hey, hey, hey. Why don't you get us started this week and tell us what y'all been up to? So this week's check-in is going to be about |
| 0:33.3 | doing things my kids would love without them. |
| 0:40.5 | You've been going to Disneyland on the down low? |
| 0:45.1 | I have not, but kind of close, kind of close call there. |
| 0:55.9 | So at the end of last week, I got a text from my friends Abby and Martha, who are two moms of kids who my kids have actually gone through all of preschool with. So like I've known them for four years at this point. Their older son was in Augie's class and their younger |
| 1:02.1 | son has been in Sebastian's class. So, you know, I really like them. We've hung out a bunch. |
| 1:07.9 | Like we've actually hung out outside of school events without kids. |
| 1:11.5 | So, like, we've gotten to the point of being friends, friends. And they sent me a text message |
| 1:16.0 | that was just like, hey, what are you doing on Tuesday? Would you like to go to the WB lot and watch |
| 1:22.7 | an early screening of Superman with us? And I was like, random, but okay. |
| 1:30.2 | Like, sure. |
| 1:31.5 | You know, my kids are either in camp or in school this week, and I have a flexible |
| 1:36.6 | work schedule. |
| 1:37.7 | And, you know, the first thought I had was like, oh, my gosh, I have so much work to do. |
| 1:41.5 | It's going to be a big chunk of my day taken out. |
| 1:43.5 | Like, am I even all that interested in seeing Superman? But then I was like, you know, Carpe fucking DM, right? Like, what am I going to be sad about on my deathbed that I didn't like spend three extra hours working on a website? Or I didn't take this opportunity to go on the WB lot, which is like a historic studio lot, you know, that I've never been on. I don't know about you. I've never been on the WB. No, me neither. That's in Burbank, right? Mm-hmm. It's in Burbank. Right across my old dentist, actually. It was very L.A. Fun fact. Yeah, fun fact. It's the one with the Water Tower, you know, the Animaniacs Water Tower. |
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