Ep. 375: Puberty 101
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Laura and Shanna reveal the funny and unusual things they've asked the internet recently in the special segment "What I Googled This Week," diving into the topics of puberty, kids' casinos, inappropriate words and more. Also, Laura reports on her family's action-packed week without childcare, and Shanna discusses how she handled taking her children on a trip to visit an ill grandparent. Finally, the moms share their BFPs and BFNs for the week. Shanna's kids are 6.5 and 9.5 years old, and Laura’s kids are 6.5 years old and 4.5 years old.
Topics discussed in this episode:
-How to fill time with your kids during summer break
-Fun things to do around LA with kids
-Taking a family trip to visit an ill family member
-How to tell my child that their grandparent is sick?
-Questioning whether words and phrases are socially acceptable
-Deep diving into the world's cutest animal
-Educating your kids about puberty, periods and the menstrual cycle
-Video-game strategy (for moms)
Products, links, resources mentioned in this episode:
-Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
-Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific
-Free LA Philharmonic rehearsals at the Hollywood Bowl
-LA East Side Parents Instagram Account
-Bush babies jumping on TikTok
-KPop Demonhunters Movie on Netflix
-KPop Demonhunters Soundtrack on Spotify
-Improvised Shakespeare Company
This episode's full show notes can be found here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. |
| 0:05.4 | On this week's episode, we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:07.7 | We have our special segment, what I Googled this week, where I just can't stop until I know everything I need to know about puberty. |
| 0:14.4 | And we wrap it up with our weekly BFPs and BFMs. |
| 0:17.3 | Let's get started. |
| 0:20.5 | Hello, everyone. Welcome to episode 3 started. Hello, everyone. |
| 0:21.5 | Welcome to episode 375. |
| 0:23.6 | Hi, Laura. |
| 0:24.8 | Hi, Shana. |
| 0:25.9 | Hi. |
| 0:27.3 | What is going on with you and your fam, don't you give us the fam-damdam-dam |
| 0:32.1 | update? |
| 0:33.6 | What isn't going on with the fam-bam this week? |
| 0:36.5 | Oh, my goodness. |
| 0:37.3 | Okay, so this is the last week of our |
| 0:41.1 | summer. Our kids start school next week, which is actually pretty early. I'm not complaining. |
| 0:46.8 | However, this week is officially a mommy daddy camp for both kids because both kids are off. And it's been, it's been a lot. |
| 1:00.1 | It's mommy daddy camp without grandma next door. Grandma's still up in Portland. And we were kind of |
| 1:08.4 | grasping at straws this week of what to do with these kids while we balanced |
| 1:12.7 | doing work and trying not to lose our minds just be afraid of them all the time. |
| 1:18.6 | And let me just give you a rundown of what we did this week. |
| 1:22.0 | It's been epic. |
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