Ep. 381: Kids' Reward System 2.0
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In the special segment "Loose Ends," Laura and Shanna circle back on topics they've talked about in previous episodes, including updates about periods, pulmonologists, pet rocks and more! Also, Laura reports on taking her new book out into the world at the Celebration of the Young Child event in Pasadena, and Shanna reports on the new and improved reward system that she recently introduced to her kids to encourage their positive behavior. 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:
-Attending a popular event to talk about potty training and Laura's new book
-Ideas for creating a successful reward system for your kids
-How to get an accurate bra measurement
-Should I let my child wear press-on nails?
-What are "shark teeth" in kids?
-Ideas for teaching your kids about puberty and periods
-Kids' emotional attachment to inanimate objects
-Celebrating your kids' creative endeavors
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
-Celebration of the Young Child festival in Pasadena
Past BFP episodes mentioned in this episode:
-Ep. 360 (Where Laura talks about bra measurements and Shanna talks about Elle's fake-nail debacle)
-Ep. 366 (Where Laura visits the pulmonologist)
-Ep. 367 (Where Laura talks about Auggie's "shark teeth")
-Ep. 369 (Where Laura reports on Auggie's first lost tooth)
-Ep. 375 (Where Shanna discusses making a bespoke puberty slideshow for her kids)
-Ep. 379 (Where Shanna reports on Cece's emotional interaction with a neighbor's landscaping rock)
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. |
| 0:05.0 | On this week's episode, we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:07.5 | We have our special segment, Loose Ends, where we follow up on the topics of periods, |
| 0:12.5 | pulmonologists, pet rocks, and more, and we wrap it up with our weekly BFPs and BFNs. |
| 0:18.0 | Let's get started. |
| 0:19.5 | Hello, everyone! Welcome to episode 381. Hi, Laura. Hi, Shana. |
| 0:26.8 | Hi. First off, full disclosure, I'm a little under the weather, so my voice might not sound as a beautiful and perfect and clear as it easily does. I'm so sorry. |
| 0:38.3 | It's got that sexy rasp. |
| 0:41.5 | Yes, I'll lean into it for you. |
| 0:46.6 | Oh, anyway, I'm going to record with you anyway because I really want to know what's your check-in? |
| 0:53.2 | What have you all been up to this week? |
| 0:54.8 | So this week has just been a whirlwind of getting into promotional efforts for my book that's coming out. |
| 1:03.6 | Oh, yeah. So when this episode airs, the book will already be out. Thank goodness. But right now, |
| 1:08.8 | I'm in the middle of like this massive promotional push to try to get |
| 1:13.4 | pre-orders and it's really ramped up this week. And the main thing that happened this week is that |
| 1:20.5 | Gia and I, you know, we've been pitching other podcasts. We've been trying to like get as much media |
| 1:24.4 | and attention and events as possible around the book launch. |
| 1:29.8 | And Gia found this event called the Pasadena Celebration of the Young Child. |
| 1:35.8 | Whoa. |
| 1:36.8 | Yeah, exactly. |
| 1:37.9 | It's like, oh, that sounds like a thing that would interest us, right? |
| 1:42.2 | Yeah, right up your alley. |
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