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Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)

Ep. 404: Can I Get My Kids to Do Chores?

Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)

Laura Birek, Shanna Micko

Parenting, Comedy, Kids & Family

4.7 • 531 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In the special segment "They Said What?!" Shanna and Laura discuss the funny, outrageous or offensive things people have said to them recently, including a surprisingly sentimental comment about Laura's upcoming travel plans and a shocking outburst in a grocery-store parking lot. Also, Shanna reports on her kids' new chore routine, and Laura talks about her anxiety leading up to her first grader's school performance. Finally, the moms share their BFPs and BFNs for the week, including a fun dinner activity for the family and a big school transition. Shanna’s kids are 7 and 10 years old, and Laura’s kids are 7 years old and 5 years old.


Topics discussed in this episode:

  • Implementing a reward system at home with your kids
  • Having your kids do chores around the house
  • Questioning your own parenting decisions based on someone else's opinion
  • Angering a stranger in public
  • Can being a mom change your brain
  • Funny things kids say
  • Making homemade sushi
  • Transitioning from preschool to TK


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. This week we have our weekly check-ins. We have our

0:07.8

special segment. They said what? Where people are getting aggressively scary and aggressively sentimental.

0:14.3

And we close with our BFPs and BFNs for the week. Let's get started. Hello everyone. Welcome to episode 404. No, it's not your

0:25.4

404 page not found. It is 404. Shana, do you have a check-in for us? This page is not broken.

0:33.7

I do have a check-in for you. Yay. Although maybe it is appropriate for what I'm going to check in about because I do feel like some things are broken in our house.

0:44.6

All right.

0:45.3

Tell us all about it.

0:46.7

We've just been back in the rut of struggling with behavior, doing the things that need to be done. And I'm talking about my kids, guys. I'm not

0:56.5

talking about my husband, okay? Or Radley? Or Radley? Or Radley? Well, Radley, yeah, he's always in that

1:03.1

ball game. Some examples, as usual, having to just walk these kids through the tasks of the morning, getting ready in the morning.

1:12.5

We bed at night.

1:13.6

They don't want to do those things.

1:14.8

They want to read.

1:16.0

They want to play.

1:16.7

They want to, who even knows?

1:18.3

And then the bickering at each other, the getting on each other's nerves.

1:23.0

It's just a lot.

1:24.5

And I'm a little bit frazzled.

1:26.9

So what I have done to try to fix the problem is I have

1:32.2

reinvigorated our cat buck system. Do you remember this? What was the what kind of? Oh,

1:37.3

cat bucks? Is that what it was I, you know what? I heard you right, but because it took a little bit of

1:44.0

time for my brain to go through the file folders, you know, flipping through heard you right, but because it took a little bit of time for my brain to go

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