Ep. 386: Is My Child Being Bullied?
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
In the special segment "What the Hack?!," Shanna and Laura share some of their favorite parenting tips and tricks, including ideas for preventing toddlers from knocking over valuable items, being prepared when you're in the car with your kids, using honey bears in a fun way and more! Also, Laura reports on the unsettling reports she has been getting from her 6-year-old's school, Shanna discusses her attempt to power through her recovery from a recent illness, and both moms share their families' plans for Thanksgiving this year. 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:
-Laura and Shanna's plans for Thanksgiving this year with their families
-Parenting while sick and trying to push through the recovery phase
-Finding out your child is being bullied at school
-Tips, tricks and hacks for making your parenting life easier
-Disappointment about not being able to follow through on a commitment
-Fun how-to drawing books for kids
Products, links, resources mentioned in this episode:
-Flashlight metaphor for pain management
-Using honey bears in the shower
-The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science by J. Kenji López-Alt
-"Ed Emberley's How to Draw Monsters and More Scary Stuff" by Ed Emberley
-Cookbook stand (to use for holding kids' drawing books)
This episode's full show notes can be found here.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. |
| 0:05.0 | This week we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:07.0 | We have our special segment, What the Hack? |
| 0:09.0 | Where we give you some new uses for flashlights, honey bears, and rice cookers, and we close with our BFPs and B events for the week. |
| 0:17.0 | Let's get to it. |
| 0:19.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to episode 386, gobble-gobble, shana. |
| 0:25.0 | Gobble, gobble, gobble. This is going to air Thanksgiving week in the U.S. So, happy Thanksgiving |
| 0:31.5 | to everyone in the United States this week. Yes, happy Thanksgiving. And I'm going to take this moment to express my gratitude |
| 0:39.9 | for all of our listeners and everyone who supports our show. And of course, to you, Laura, |
| 0:45.3 | best co-host ever. Aw, that's so sweet. I am so grateful for you, too, as always. It doesn't |
| 0:51.3 | take a special holiday for me to have to say it, though. I'm always grateful. |
| 0:55.3 | Oh, likewise. But before we jump into our regular check-in, should we do a little, what are we doing |
| 1:00.1 | for Thanksgiving update? Sure. All right. So what's you doing? Well, Shauna, as you know, the last |
| 1:05.2 | couple years, I've hosted a Thanksgiving dinner for our family and your family at our house. And this year, |
| 1:14.7 | we're doing something a little bit different. It's a little bittersweet because we are going to |
| 1:20.1 | have to miss our Yeager Thanksgiving, which had basically become a tradition. I was really looking forward to until we made these other plans. |
| 1:30.7 | I was like, okay, I'm also really looking forward to this, which is we are going to Hawaii for Thanksgiving. |
| 1:39.5 | Woo-woo. |
| 1:40.1 | And by we, you mean your family, not we as in, your family and the Yeagers. |
| 1:44.7 | Just to be clear. I mean, you're welcome family, not we as in, your family in the Yeagers. Just to be clear. |
| 1:45.9 | I mean, you're welcome to join us if you want to join us. |
| 1:49.8 | Don't tempt me. |
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