Ep. 406: Mom Hacks for Homework, Laundry, Lost Keys and More!
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 62 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 making household laundry easier, making homework time more engaging and more! Also, Shanna has a surprising reaction to her daughter's softball schedule this season, and Laura's son has his first appointment with an Occupational Therapist. Finally, the moms share their BFPs and BFNs for the week, including a product that has changed Shanna's life for the better and a musical event that delighted Laura's entire family. 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:
- Handling your kids' extracurricular activity schedules
- What is occupational therapy?
- Dealing with sibling jealousy
- Clever parenting tips and tricks for laundry, oil stains, homework, dangerous dress-up clothes and more
- Best water bottle ever
- Kid-friendly live concerts
Products, links, resources mentioned in this episode:
- Helium balloons at Staples
- Oil stain hack on Reddit
- Cabinet door and drawer bumpers
- Fluffy key fob
- iPhone Shortcuts app
- How to: Automating a file to play on your iPhone
- Wheel of Names
- Collapsible laundry hampers
- Bare-bones stopwatch
- Owala water bottle
- Rock and Roll Playground
Past BFP episodes mentioned in this episode:
- Ep. 391 - Where Shanna talks about streamlining her kids' extracurricular-activity schedule
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. |
| 0:05.3 | This week we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:07.2 | We have our special segment, What the Heck? |
| 0:09.8 | Where we share clever ways to find your keys and find your whimsy. |
| 0:13.9 | And we close with our BFPs and BFNs for the week. |
| 0:17.0 | Let's get started. |
| 0:19.8 | Hello, everyone. Welcome to episode 406. Hi, Sha started. Hello, everyone. |
| 0:21.2 | Welcome to episode 406. |
| 0:23.3 | Hi, Shauna. |
| 0:24.4 | Hello. |
| 0:25.3 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:26.1 | Shall we get right to it and start with your check-ins? |
| 0:29.2 | Oh, I think we should. |
| 0:31.0 | This week I have a check-in about extracurricular activities. |
| 0:35.3 | Ooh. |
| 0:36.2 | We've had a surprising development on that front that I needed to talk about. |
| 0:40.9 | Oh, do tell. |
| 0:43.3 | There's been a drama in the past. |
| 0:45.4 | I know that there's been softball drama and needing to wear wide-leg jeans at soccer |
| 0:51.0 | practice drama. |
| 0:52.1 | So I'm very curious what's going on now. All right. So this |
| 0:58.1 | season, we are doing softball, as I've mentioned before, for CC, and I've kind of pared down their |
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