Ep. 372: When Is My Child Officially Potty Trained?
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In the special segment "Checkin' the Inbox," Laura and Shanna answer listener questions about knowing when your toddler is officially potty trained, handling your kids' socially unacceptable habits, our worst bosses ever and more! Also, Shanna reports on the unexpected ending to a breakfast date with her 6-year-old, and Laura discusses the range of emotions involved in her 4-year-old's last week at preschool. 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:
-Spending one-on-one time with your children
-Kids' feelings vs. Mom's feelings about the last week of preschool
-How do you know when your toddler is officially potty trained?
-How do you handle your young kids' "annoying" habits?
-What are BFRBs?
-If we (and our kids) were vegetables, what would we be and why?
-What does a podcast producer do?
-The worst bosses that Laura and Shanna have had
-The unexpected activity that had Shanna and Elle laughing hysterically
-Mom's night out!
Products, links, resources mentioned in this episode:
-"Good to Go: A Fresh Take on Potty Training for Today's Intentional Parent" by Gia Gambaro Blount and Laura Birek
-Laura and Gia's book on NetGalley - Get an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review
-Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRB)
-What does an artichoke flower look like?
-"Dork Diaries 12: Tales from a Not-So-Secret Crush Catastrophe" by Rachel Renée Russell
-"Everyone Is Lying to You" by Jo Piazza
Past BFP episodes mentioned in this episode:
-Ep. 358 (For Laura's story about her ex-boyfriend)
This episode's full show notes can be found here.
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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. |
| 0:07.3 | We have our special segment. |
| 0:08.5 | Check in the inbox where we talk about potty training aha moments. |
| 0:11.6 | And we reveal some stories of the worst bosses we've ever had. |
| 0:14.9 | And we close with our BFPs and BFNs for the week. |
| 0:17.4 | Let's get started. |
| 0:41.2 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to episode 372. Shana, are you there? Hello, Laura. I'm here. Well, you sound a little different, Shana. What's up? Yeah, my usual recording setup is on the fritz, not available at the moment. So I have improvised a new setup. And, |
| 0:47.6 | you know, I apologize if I don't sound as a fabulous as usual, but I wanted to be here to record no matter what. Come rain or shine or weird recording setups, we are here for you, BFP listeners. |
| 0:53.7 | That's right. All right. So let's get right to it. |
| 0:57.9 | You are up first to tell us your weekly check-in. All right. Let's do it. So I feel like a lot has been |
| 1:05.0 | going on in my life and my family. A lot of stuff, I'm feeling pretty overwhelmed in general. |
| 1:10.5 | And I'll probably at some point get into some of stuff. I'm feeling pretty overwhelmed in general, and I'll probably |
| 1:11.0 | at some point get into some of that. But what has really come into focus for me this week is |
| 1:17.0 | taking time to connect with my family, my kids especially, despite stuff going on in my orbit. |
| 1:26.3 | And so I have a couple things to report on one in the check-in and one in |
| 1:30.6 | the final segment. So I love it. You're focusing inward into your core family. So, okay, |
| 1:37.1 | tell me your first part. I woke up this last weekend and was like, I don't want to cook breakfast. |
| 1:41.8 | I don't want to, you know, find shit around the kitchen that the kids are going to be like, no. |
| 1:48.5 | And also, I was really craving bacon and hash browns. |
| 1:52.1 | So I had this brilliant idea. |
| 1:54.0 | I was like, let's go out to breakfast. |
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