Ep. 377: Hiring a Babysitter
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In the special segment "Mom Wins!," Laura and Shanna celebrate their recent parenting achievements, including surprising successes inside a hotel lobby, at a big-kid's birthday party, in the presence of a claw machine and more! Also, Laura dives into a late-night crafting project that blows the minds of many children (and adults), and Shanna hires a non-family babysitter for the very first time. 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:
-KPop Demon Hunters
-Making crafts on the Cricut
-Hiring babysitters
-Allowing self-expression in your children
-Managing your kids' meltdowns
-Hiring food-delivery robots
-Finding time and space for hobbies when you're a mom
Products, links, resources mentioned in this episode:
-KPop Demon Hunters Movie on Netflix
-"The Carpool Detectives: A True Story of Four Moms, Two Bodies, and One Mysterious Cold Case" by Chuck Hogan
Past BFP episodes mentioned in this episode:
-Ep. 350 (For the episode where Shanna talks about her family's trip to Lake Arrowhead)
-Ep. 347 (For the episode where Shanna talks about taking Cece to an ice-skating party)
-Ep. 371 (For the episode where Laura talks about discovering food-delivery robots in her neighborhood)
-Ep. 19 (For the episode where Laura talks about spinning wool - before it made her nauseous)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shana and Laura. |
| 0:05.0 | On this week's episode, we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:07.5 | We have our special segment, Mom Wins, where we celebrate some encounters with receptionists |
| 0:12.6 | and robots, and we wrap it up with our weekly BFPs and BFNs. |
| 0:16.5 | Let's get started. |
| 0:17.5 | Hello, everyone. |
| 0:20.5 | Welcome to episode 377. Hi, Laura. Hello, Shawna. |
| 0:25.1 | Hello. Why don't you? Give us your check-in for the week. Okay, so my check-in involves you and your |
| 0:31.0 | beautiful family. We attended a very fun event with you guys and had a really good hangout this weekend because |
| 0:39.7 | a few weeks ago Steve messaged the group and was like, hey everyone, would you guys want to go |
| 0:46.6 | to a K-pop Demon Hunter sing along with us? There's one in Glendale. And at that point, we had |
| 0:52.9 | watched K-pop Demon Hunters and my boys were obsessed. And I was like, |
| 0:57.2 | yes, sir, let's do it. It's funny because I told Corey about it. And he was like, oh, hopefully they're not |
| 1:03.3 | sick of K-pop Demon Hunters by then. Like, hopefully they're not over it, you know, in a few weeks |
| 1:08.2 | when the sing-along happens. Far from it. Jokes on Corey. |
| 1:15.1 | Yeah. I would say we have tripled down on our K-pop Demon Hunter's obsession over here. |
| 1:22.8 | Same, same. So this was on a Sunday at like 10 a.m. The movie was playing around the corner from our house. |
| 1:30.0 | So you guys were going to like come over. |
| 1:31.5 | We were going to park and then walk over. |
| 1:33.9 | And the night before at like 9 p.m., I had a thought. |
| 1:38.7 | And that thought was I should do some crafting so that the kids have some themed t-shirts for the sing-along tomorrow. |
| 1:47.7 | Amazing. |
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