Ep. 382: Spooky Parenting Stories
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Shanna and Laura get into the Halloween spirit with a spooky special segment, sharing scary parenting stories that will strike fear in even the most confident parents! Also, Laura reports on her kids' creepy Halloween costume choices, and Shanna reacts to her 6-year-old's last-minute request to switch costumes. Finally, they 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' Halloween costumes
-Halloween parties
-Scary parenting stories
-Phrogging
-Purgatory box
-Creating screen-time rules with your kids
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Past BFP episodes mentioned in this episode:
-Ep. 335 (Where Shanna talks about her Halloween party last year)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. |
| 0:05.5 | This week we have our weekly check-ins where we talk about our Halloween plans for this year. |
| 0:09.7 | We have a very spooky special segment where we tell thrilling, chilling stories that will send a shiver down any parent's spine. |
| 0:17.8 | And we close with our BFPs and B events for the week. |
| 0:20.4 | Let's get started. |
| 0:21.2 | Ooh, hello everyone and welcome to this spooky episode of Big Fat Positive. It's episode 382, |
| 0:33.1 | but it's also Halloween week for those of you out in podcast land. So, Shawna and I have a special |
| 0:39.4 | spooky episode plan for y'all. Oh, sorry, I'm still a little sick. My spooky ghost |
| 0:47.2 | turned into a weird coughing lady. I mean, what's scarier than being sick around Halloween? |
| 0:53.6 | Truly, truly. It's not cool. No. So, Shauna, instead of our normal check-ins this week, we are going to check in about what our plans are for Halloween. Would you like to kick us off? |
| 1:05.8 | Absolutely. Halloween is shaping up to be one of my favorite holidays of the year. I used to love it as a kid. My |
| 1:13.3 | interest petered out as a young adult. And now that I have kids, I am all into it. So this year, |
| 1:19.8 | my kids have made me commit to having another Halloween party on Halloween like we did last year. And this |
| 1:26.8 | year it's on Friday. So that's going to be |
| 1:29.6 | extra fun. And I had such a great time last year that I really didn't have a problem being like, |
| 1:35.2 | yeah, let's do it again. Yeah, you loved that party last year. Maybe jealous we didn't go. |
| 1:41.7 | It was so fun. So now that I have a template, right? I did it last year. I kind of know |
| 1:47.7 | what to do this year. I'm getting ahead on things, Laura. I'm so proud of myself. I've already got |
| 1:54.8 | like my little craft supplies in order. We started decorating the house ahead of time. Last year, |
| 2:00.7 | this was all a whirlwind at the last minute. |
| 2:03.3 | But things are chugging along. We made some invitations and the girls wanted to go old school and print them up and hand them out to their friends at school. |
| 2:12.8 | So that's what we did. I've been collecting RSVPs and yeah, just gearing up for a fun night of |
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