Ep. 385: AI Did Me Dirty!
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In the special segment “Mom Confessions,” Laura and Shanna share the embarrassing or hilarious parenting experiences they have had recently, including a destructive laundry mishap, an inappropriate AI encounter and more! Also, Shanna reports on how she is managing sciatic nerve pain, and Laura discusses her realization that she now has an "edgy" older kid. 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:
-When your kids do things that seem mature beyond their years
-What to do if you have sciatic nerve pain
-Laundry mistakes
-Going to great lengths to avoid saying "no" to your kids
-Feeling embarrassed about the way you send your kid to school
-When AI steers you wrong
-Revamping your kid's bedroom without spending money
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
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive is Shana and Laura. |
| 0:05.3 | In this week's episode, we have our weekly check-in. |
| 0:07.5 | We have our special segment, Mom Confessions, where we share stories of deception, destruction, and AI doing us dirty. |
| 0:15.6 | And we wrap it up with our weekly BFPs and BFNs. |
| 0:18.4 | Let's get started. |
| 0:24.8 | Hello, everyone. Welcome to episode 385. Hi, Laura. |
| 0:33.2 | Hi, Shauna. Hi. You know we kick off every episode with our weekly check-in, so I'd love to know what you'll been up to this week. Okay, so this week while we're recording is still October. We haven't hit Halloween yet. |
| 0:40.0 | We did have our episode a few weeks back where we talked about what our kids were being for |
| 0:43.8 | Halloween, right? And I talked to you about how Augie is going to be ghost face from Scream, right? |
| 0:51.1 | Right. Well, what I wanted to check in this week about is just the absolute hilarity about how |
| 0:59.0 | wearing this ghost face mask has basically become his whole personality. Does he love it? He loves it. And it is |
| 1:08.3 | one of those things where I feel very conflicted watching him in it because |
| 1:14.7 | it's really funny. It's really cute. And then it also is like, oh, you look like a bigger kid now. |
| 1:21.6 | You know, like. True. I remember a couple of Halloweens ago, it might have even been last Halloween |
| 1:26.7 | when we would see kids with those ghosts like, you know, because they're all around, like those ghost face masks. That's the whole reason he knows what they are is because he saw them at other Halloween's of Yore. And I would see other kids in them and I'd be like, oh, man, that's kind of scary. And like, how do they even know about that? and like, you know, I had all all these not, I wouldn't say judgments, but sort of like, oh, that, that kid is an older kid, |
| 1:48.9 | right? Like, that kid is, you know, solidly in elementary school, not my kinder kid, you know, |
| 1:54.0 | who's really cute as Harry Potter or whatever. And now this child is walking down the street |
| 2:00.7 | in adorable downtown Montrose wearing his ghost face mask, not on Halloween, just on a random Tuesday. |
| 2:10.1 | And I'm like, oh, I'm getting one of those older kids. |
| 2:14.1 | I'm getting an edgier kid. |
| 2:15.7 | It's happening. |
| 2:16.5 | Yeah. |
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