Ep. 380: Talking Trash: When Your Kid Spreads Rumors... About You!
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In the special segment "OMG I'm Freaking Out!" Shanna and Laura reveal the current parenting dilemmas that have their hair standing on end, diving into the topics of things you never want your kids to touch and things you wish your kids would never say. Also, Shanna reports on her 6-year-old's first softball game of the season, and Laura shares her 4-year-old's new dramatic interest. 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:
-Kids' extracurricular activities
-Weird things our kids find
-When your kid spreads gossip about you
-A backyard toy that Shanna's kids love
-The unexpected benefit of Laura's new recording setup
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| 0:28.6 | welcome to big fat positive with shana and laura this week we have our weekly check-ins |
| 0:37.2 | we have our special segment omins. We have our special |
| 0:38.0 | segment, OMG, I'm freaking out, where we are freaking out about trash talking and trash digging, |
| 0:43.8 | and we close with our BFPs and BFNs for the week. Let's get started. Hello, hello, hello, |
| 0:49.9 | everyone. Welcome to episode 380 of the Big Fat Positive, a pregnancy and parenting journey podcast. Shana, do I have you on the line? |
| 0:57.4 | Hi, I'm here. Hello, Shana. All right, so it's time for our weekly check-ins. Do you want to tell me what you've been up to this week? |
| 1:06.5 | I do. So I don't know if I mentioned that I signed Cece up for softball this season. Have I mentioned that? |
| 1:14.7 | Maybe in passing. I feel like softball has kind of come up as a topic, but you haven't given us the full rundown of what's going on. |
| 1:23.1 | Like I think you mentioned, oh, she mentioned she wanted to do it again, but we haven't gotten like a |
| 1:27.7 | state of the union on what's going on with the softball. So, okay. So yeah, because I think you |
| 1:34.6 | had mentioned something in passing about how something had happened at softball practice or |
| 1:38.6 | whatever. But, okay, so she started softball again? Yeah. I recall now I mentioned I went to breakfast with her one-on-one |
| 1:45.7 | this summer. And I was like, what interests you? Right. Like, what do you want to do this fall? And she |
| 1:50.4 | was like, softball. And I was like, okay. Well, I love softball. I know that she had trouble sticking |
| 1:59.5 | with it before, resistance to going to practice, not |
| 2:03.4 | wanting to play full games, and we had taken a year off of softball. And so I was like, okay, |
| 2:08.1 | I'll keep that in the back of my mind. And I didn't sign her up right away, right? It's like |
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