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In the Loop with Andy Andrews

ITL 128: The Most Reliable Parenting Advice I've Found

In the Loop with Andy Andrews

Matt Lempert

Business

4.9614 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2014

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode, I talk about the first steps Polly and I took when we found out we were going to be parents.

I never expected to do anything like this, but I think this is the most important thing I’ve ever done. 



15 years ago when Polly sat me down and said “we are going to have a baby,” I was excited…and then broke out in a cold sweat.  

  • I really dug into parenting right from the beginning.
    

  • I wanted to give my wife and I more certainty for this life we were about to guide.



I believe you can know how to do a certain thing, but…

  • If you don’t know why it works then you’ll always be tempted to move away from it, do it too much, or do it too little.

  • I talk to more people who have issues with their adult children than I do to people who have issues with their kids. 
    


For a long time I didn’t want to do a parenting course because I’ve taken several courses and read fifty books.
   

  • The thing that got me about the parenting courses was that there was no proof.

  • There were examples, great ideas, life lessons, and principles, but there was no proof.

  • There was never anything where you said, “That is absolutely right and will work every time!”



This course is going to be all encompassing. Make sure you are on our email list so you can get the latest details about it.

Questions for Listeners

Do you have a question? Call in and your question might be featured on the show!

  • Phone: 1-800-726-ANDY
     

  • E-Mail: InTheLoop@AndyAndrews.com
   

  • Facebook.com/AndyAndrews     
       

  • Twitter.com/AndyAndrews



Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to In the Loop, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective

0:06.2

with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews. Now here's your host. Hello and welcome to In the Loop

0:13.8

with Andy Andrews. I'm your host, David Loy and Andy, we find ourselves sitting together at a table

0:20.7

today.

0:21.2

Normally we're on the phone together when we're recording these, but today we're sitting

0:25.0

across the table from each other.

0:27.0

That is different.

0:28.5

This is...

0:28.9

Very different.

0:29.7

But I'm glad to be here, and you look very nice today, David.

0:35.2

I'm sure your wife did good with you, sent you out of the house all scrubbed. She approved, correct, yes, absolutely. She always approves of what I'm wearing. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, people say, I'll go on airplanes and be like that shirt and I'll say, yeah, thanks. I wear what my wife lays out. Exactly. There you go. All the credit goes to her, any blame does go to me. But I am glad to be here. This is awesome just sitting across the table from you.

0:58.8

Absolutely. It has a different feel to be live and looking at each other as opposed to just listening to each other. But you're actually in town right now because we are working on creating a new course, really.

1:13.2

I think a lot of people have heard of the guided traveler experience,

1:16.8

that online video course that we've had available for several months now,

1:20.9

but we're actually in process of creating a new course,

1:24.4

and it's on a topic that I know is so near and dear to your heart.

1:29.0

You're very passionate about it.

1:31.2

Are you about to tell them what it is?

1:33.1

I never really, I never expected to do anything like this.

1:38.9

Really?

1:39.2

I never, I never, this was not on my radar to do. And yet, right in the middle of it yesterday

1:48.3

of filming, I, I went, you know, when we took a break, I went and I called Polly and I said,

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