ITL139: Surprising Things Your Kids Can Learn from a Garden

In the Loop with Andy Andrews

Matt Lempert

Business

4.9 • 614 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2014

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode, I talk about the benefits of gardening with your family and answer a listener question on divided families.

We have a little garden of eight blackberry bushes that we planted three years ago.

The first year we got a few blackberries.
The second year we got a lot of blackberries.
This year we couldn’t pick them all at one time.

This is a great thing parents can do with their kids.

Get a couple of plants, take your kids in the backyard, dig a hole, pour some potting soil in it, and stick the plant in the yard.
This is what families used to do together.
We’ll spend an hour just picking berries and talking to each other.
Doing this teaches your children about end results.

Planting something is a great metaphor for life.

Zig Ziglar talked about planting a bamboo tree and growing it over ten-years.
You water and fertilize it for years without seeing results.
Then, in that last year, it will have grown 100-feet.
So… did it grow 100-feet in one year or ten years?

What can parents of divided families do to make sure they’re being as effective as they can?

One of the great strategies is for the mom and dad to get together and determine what they want the child’s adulthood to look like.
Write it down.
If you sit there and try to discuss methods, it’s going to be opinion vs. opinion.
Determine the result, and work backward from there.
Then, you can be more certain that when your child is not with you, the other parent is still aiming for the same result.

Check out Andy’s parenting series for more information. You will get access to over 80-minutes of free content in this 4-video series.

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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. Now here's your host, David Loy.
0:13.3	Hello and welcome to In The Loop with Andy Andrews. I'm your host, David Loy, and I am honored
0:19.3	to once again be sitting here with you, Andy. How are you today?
0:23.6	I'm doing great, David. How are you? I am fantastic. It is, it's beautiful weather here in Nashville.
0:30.9	I know you, you guys have had a fairly light summer so far. Is that right in Orange Beach? Heat-wise?
0:39.0	Yeah, yeah, it's getting there, though. It's, it's getting hot. So I saw this morning, but you know, we're fine because we have the,
0:45.7	you know, the beaches in town and so we're fine. And I saw this morning, uh, a picture of some,
0:52.2	was it blackberries that you posted on Facebook?
0:55.1	Yeah, yeah, man.
0:56.3	The blackberries are coming in.
0:58.0	Austin made us a blackberry cobbler last night.
1:01.6	It's like the third one we've had.
1:03.7	No way.
1:04.5	Oh, listen, it's great.
1:07.0	We have a little garden, you know, everything is sand around here so you bring in
1:12.6	your dirt and kind of pour it around and and uh but we planted uh three years ago eight
1:20.8	thornless blackberry plants you know you just get them for like nine ninety five at a nursery
1:27.0	and everybody's got them and I had seen
1:29.7	them for years and I thought well thornless blackberries because we you know we just there's not the
1:35.8	places to roam around where we are like we were when we were kids and going to find in blackberries
1:41.5	and so he's I don't know we'll just plant some and we stuck those things in the ground and first year we got find them blackberries. And so he's, I don't know, we'll just plant some. And we stuck those things in the ground. And the first year, we got a few blackberries. And the second year, last year, we got a lot of blackberries. This year, it's like, holy cow, you know, like invite the school system to come pick at our house or something. Because we're, you you know Polly and Adam were out there yesterday
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