ITL132: How to Honor Your Mother Year-Round

In the Loop with Andy Andrews

Matt Lempert

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4.9 • 614 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2014

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode, we honor our mothers with an episode not just for Mother’s Day.

A couple of weeks ago the boys found a vine hanging down from a tree.

I can remember telling Polly, “They’re fine.” I didn’t say, “You’ll be fine.”
Adam was yelling, “It’s perfectly safe!”
So as Polly is swinging, the vine cracks and mama fell from the sky.
What a great mom these boys have. As crazy as that was…what a great memory.

I say this to friends of mine whose mothers pass away:

First, I ask how old they are. For this example, let’s say they are 57.
I’ll say, “I know that you’re sad, and there’s never a good time for anyone’s mama to pass away, but I am envious, because you had 57 years with a mama as great as yours and that must have been awesome.”

Make a determined and consistent effort to let your parents, especially your mama, know you love them.

Some of the moments when I most admire Polly are when I see flashes of my mother in her.
It’s very odd to me that I am now older than my mother was when she passed away.

I make sure the boys know every time they leave for school or go to bed at night that it could be the last time they see us.

I don’t want them living in fear.
But I also don’t want them living with regret.
Again, say what you need to say to the people you care about.

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0:00.0	You're listening to In the Loop, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective
0:06.5	with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews.
0:10.4	Now here's your host, David Loy.
0:12.9	Hi and welcome to In The Loop with Andy Andrews.
0:16.6	Glad you're here with us.
0:17.5	Once again, I'm your host, David Loy.
0:19.2	And we have, as always, Andy Andrews. Andy, how are you?
0:24.2	I'm doing great, David. I'm doing great. What are we talking about today? I know we're right here at Mother's Day.
0:31.2	Exactly. So we're kind of continuing this theme. We've done a couple of episodes related to family and parenting and kind of going a little bit deeper into family dynamics and relationships.
0:41.8	And it is right near Mother's Day, but people might be listening to this down the road or well after Mother's Day.
0:48.5	Sure, so not necessarily a Mother's Day thing.
0:51.0	Correct.
0:51.4	You don't have to wear the flower while you're listening.
0:55.7	Exactly, yes. But I guess Mother's Day and. Correct. You don't have to wear the flower while you're listening. Exactly, yes.
1:02.0	But I guess Mother's Day and just honoring mothers is kind of an all-year-long kind of thing.
1:07.5	I would guess, I would like to, Mom, if you're listening, I would like to tell you that I'm thinking of and honoring you every day. Do you think your mother listens to us? I think she does. I don't know if she listens every week, but I think she does listen. And the reason I know why is because, I don't know if you remember this. You call you and correct your English on something? She did, actually. Oh, get out of here. Seriously? From a month ago, she called her. I had made a reference on the show. I said something bad to the people that are listening. I think I said, you people out there that are listening. Yeah, well, that got, what's his name in trouble? What's the guy? Who is this? Ross Perot. Oh. I got him in trouble. You people.
1:44.4	You people.
1:45.1	Who's us?
1:46.2	Who's, who's?
1:46.7	You people?
1:47.6	Who's people? So your mother got upset about that. She did. She was not thrilled. And I'm from Dallas, too. So maybe I learned that from Ross Perot. I don't know. We'll see. That's bizarre. Anyway, mom, if you are listening, I'm honoring you. And Andy, I guess the point
2:02.9	here is that we are going to talk about mothers. We can talk about your mother. I'd love to hear
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