Ep. 412: The School Auction
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
In the special segment "Out of Context," Laura and Shanna share random text messages they have sent or received that shed light on their parenting lives, including shocking elementary-school auction items, bizarre stovetop contraptions and more. Also, Shanna gives an update on her 7-year-old's daily medication routine, and Laura reports on a last-minute volunteering opportunity that turned into an hours-long commitment. Finally, the moms share their BFPs and BFNs for the week, including an exciting new parenting support program and a long-awaited Disneyland milestone. Shanna's kids are 7 and 10 years old, and Laura's kids are 7 and 5 years old.
Topics discussed in this episode:
• Helping your child get comfortable with a daily medicine routine
• Whether or not to use a reward system to help your child take medicine
• When volunteering at school becomes a whole "thing."
• What is Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)?
• Picking your battles with neurodivergent kids
• Shockingly inappropriate items in a school auction
• Kids playing April Fools' Day pranks on their parents
• Disneyland height requirements and the fast pass card hack
Products, links, resources mentioned in this episode:
• UCLA PCIT Program - Parent-Child Interaction Therapy individual and group sessions
• Five Below - Shanna's treasure box supply sources
• Wheel of Names - Shanna's homework rotation system
• The Comeback - HBO show Laura watched while babysitting at Nora's
• The Traitors - Peacock reality show (Nora's murder mystery party theme)
• Highlights Magazine - Source of the April Fools' food prank activity
Past BFP episodes mentioned in this episode:
• Ep. 410 - Where Shanna talks about her struggle to get Cece to take her new daily medication
• Ep. 411 - Where Laura's BFP was the Long Beach Grand Prix
• Ep. 388 - Where Laura discussed switching the kids' schools
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| 0:41.3 | Welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. |
| 0:43.9 | This week we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:46.0 | We have our special segment, out of context, where Shana and I get messages that leave us |
| 0:51.7 | clutching our pearls and scratching our heads. |
| 0:54.7 | And we close with our BFPs and BFNs for the week. |
| 0:57.6 | Let's get started. |
| 1:00.3 | Hello, everyone. |
| 1:01.8 | Welcome to episode 412 of Big Fat Positive. |
| 1:05.7 | Shana, it's so nice to have you on the line. |
| 1:09.2 | Hi, it's nice to be here and to talk to you. |
| 1:12.6 | Hello, hello. |
| 1:13.4 | Shall we get right to it and start with your check-ins? |
| 1:16.1 | Oh, I think we should. |
| 1:17.4 | I do have an update on something I talked about a couple weeks ago, which is our endeavor to get CC to take a new daily medication. |
| 1:32.8 | Yes, CC is extremely resistant to taking medicine of any form. And you've documented your struggle with this for years, basically, but now you have |
| 1:38.3 | the new struggle of having to give her a medicine every single day. So how is that going? Well, when I talked about it last time, |
| 1:47.4 | it was trying to get her to take the very first pill, right? And that was a big thing. I had to |
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