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Hello, everyone. Welcome back to In The Loop with Andy Andrews, where he shares powerful and simple principles that once applied will change your life forever.

On today's show, we're going to talk about parenting.

We're going to talk about how Andy is intentional about the parenting of their two boys.

And we're also going to answer a listener's question about how to deal with a negative kid so

Andy welcome hey I am excited to be here today this is a great topic to me and one of my favorite

things to talk about because I have two little boys Austin and Adam Austin's 12 Adam nine. Got a sixth grader and a third grader.

And so I'm right now looking at pictures of them around in my office. So let's go, brother.

I'm excited about this. Well, let's jump into the listener question. And this is, and I can kind of

hear the heavy heart, heavy heart of this dad. So,

pretty serious question. And so I'm interested to hear your take on it. So here we go.

Hi, this is BJ from Gretna, Virginia. I just wanted to say, enjoyed meeting you. I am Andy at

Liberty University a few weeks ago. I had a question on the parenting topic.

I've got a 14-year-old son that seems to always look at the negative side of things and concentrate on that.

What do you recommend on getting him to see the bright side or the positive side of things

to concentrate more on that?

Thanks. Thanks.

Okay. I did have a great time at Liberty University, by the way. That was an amazing college. I spoke at their convocation, which is like 12,000 kids there at one time. So it was

awesome.

Man, I can hear, I can just, I can hear the heart in that question from BJ.

And I, and, you know, I've got a 12-year-old.

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