Ep. 387: Out of Context
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In the brand-new special segment "Out of Context," Laura and Shanna share random text messages they have sent or received that shed light on their parenting life, diving into the topics of kids' crushes, classroom behavior, time management and more! Also, Laura reflects on her surprising feelings about staying up late with her kids, and Shanna reports on the situation that put her kids' Halloween party in peril. 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:
-Should I let my kids stay up late for special occasions?
-Throwing a Halloween party for your kids
-Being sick as a parent and pushing yourself too hard
-Feeling overwhelmed by the amount of communication it requires to be a parent
-Receiving a report from your kid's teacher that they have misbehaved at school
-Lurking on your kids' social media posts
-Trying not to act too excited when your selective eater tries new foods
-A fun, family-friendly activity in Los Angeles
-Feeling unsure when your kid brings home an intensive project from school
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. On this week's episode, we have our weekly |
| 0:07.4 | check-ins. We have a brand new special segment called Out of Context, where we put on our |
| 0:12.9 | detective hats and try to make sense of some puzzling text messages, and we wrap it up with our |
| 0:18.0 | weekly BFPs and BFNs. Let's get started. |
| 0:23.1 | Hello, everyone. Welcome to episode 387. I like that number. It has a great ring to it. I don't know why. But Laura, welcome to this episode. |
| 0:32.6 | It does have a good ring to it. I don't know why. It just has a nice cadence, 387. And I'm happy to be here. Hi, |
| 0:39.9 | Shauna. Hi. Why don't you kick us off with your check-in for the week? Okay, so we had a pretty |
| 0:44.4 | fun week, partially because it was Halloween week in our timeline. I know we've talked about it already, |
| 0:49.0 | but Halloween was here for us. And part of that was that we got to go over to your house for your big Halloween |
| 0:54.9 | party, which was super fun. Yay. I'm sure you're going to talk a little bit about that. So I won't |
| 1:00.4 | get too into it. But we did go over to your house, had so much fun. The kids loved the little |
| 1:05.6 | diorama tableau you guys created out front that we talked about. Yes. |
| 1:11.7 | They did. |
| 1:12.3 | My FBI, my funny business investigators, the skeleton FBI investigating the clown |
| 1:18.5 | death. |
| 1:20.0 | They were really mad because we didn't really have time to solve the murder, right? |
| 1:25.2 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:26.2 | Before trick-or-treating and stuff. |
| 1:28.1 | And then at the end of the night, I was like, we got to get out of here. |
| 1:30.6 | It's late. |
| 1:31.4 | And they were like, but we haven't solved the murder yet. |
| 1:35.3 | Oh, that's right. |
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