Ep. 379: Today's Meltdown Is Brought to You by...
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In the special segment "Why Is My Kid Crying?," Shanna and Laura explore the situations that have brought out the waterworks in their little ones recently, including unexpected morning meltdowns, big feelings about inanimate objects and more! Also in this episode, Laura discusses the trials and tribulations of naming a family pet, and Shanna reports on a weekend road trip with her kids to see a unique sporting event. Finally, Shanna and Laura 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:
-Laura and family decide on a name for their new kitten
-Shanna and family take a road trip to San Diego
-The unpredictability of kids' emotions
-How to handle major meltdowns right before school starts
-Reviews for Laura's book "Good to Go: A Fresh Take on Potty Training for Today's Intentional Parent"
-A fun museum to go to with kids in San Diego
Products, links, resources mentioned in this episode:
-Maragritaville Hotel San Diego
-"Good to Go: A Fresh Take on Potty Training for Today's Intentional Parent" on NetGalley
Past BFP episodes mentioned in this episode:
-Ep. 378 - (For the episode where Laura adopts a new kitten)
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. |
| 0:05.4 | On this week's episode, we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:07.7 | We have our special segment, Why Is My Kid Crying? |
| 0:10.5 | Where we talk carpool catastrophes, landscaping, laments, and more. |
| 0:14.7 | And we wrap it up with our weekly BFPs and BFense. |
| 0:17.3 | Let's get started. |
| 0:20.0 | Hello, everyone. |
| 0:24.2 | Welcome to episode 379. Hi, Laura, my friends. |
| 0:31.2 | Hello, Shana, my friend. How are you doing? Good. Why don't you give us your check-in on your little family of my friends that live over there in Glendale. Tell me what's been going on this week. |
| 0:36.8 | Okay, so we have a name for the kitten. |
| 0:41.8 | Oh my gosh. What is it? It's not avocado. Sorry to Augie. He really lobbied hard for that one. Let me tell you. |
| 0:51.8 | He's like, it's the one vegetable I love, okay? And everyone needs to know. |
| 0:56.5 | He has had an avocado two times in his life, okay? But he loved it, right? Isn't that a whole thing? |
| 1:03.2 | Like, he just loved it? Yeah. That one time, I can't replicate it. He was at his preschool doing |
| 1:09.8 | like a cooking thing. They were making, I don't remember, |
| 1:13.0 | tacos or something. And he got assigned to the guacamole table and he just started eating an |
| 1:19.0 | avocado with a spoon, just raw dogging an avocado. That was me in college when I became a vegetarian and didn't know what to eat. |
| 1:29.9 | My dad used to do that. |
| 1:31.4 | I remember being so baffled. |
| 1:32.8 | He would just like walk around the house holding an avocado like it was its own little bowl and having a spoon. |
| 1:37.6 | Like no salt or anything. |
| 1:38.7 | And I remember thinking like, I'm not going to do that. |
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