ITL172: The Amazing Benefits of Reading (and How to Get Your Kids to Actually Do It)
In the Loop with Andy Andrews
Matt Lempert
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2015
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode, I answer a listener question on how to get your kids to read.
It’s extremely important that you get your child to read.
- I understand when people say they don’t like to read.
- I’m more of an outdoor kind of guy so I have to make myself read.
When we look at the massive benefits of reading, then it doesn’t really matter whether you like to read or not.
- The statistics about reading show that people who read make more money, have a lower divorce rate, have fewer problems with their children, and get many more benefits.
- I want my kids to read because I know what reading does.
- Do we always want to read? Not necessarily, but we do want to make a better living for our families. We do want to be more valuable in our careers.
- If there’s something you want to learn how to do, you can learn exactly how the best people in the world have done it by reading their books.
If you think a certain book is critical for your child to read and it can’t wait…pay them.
- Have them give you an oral or written report.
- Make it worth their while and worth your while.
Questions for Listeners
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- Phone: 1-800-726-ANDY
- E-Mail: InTheLoop@AndyAndrews.com
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- 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 |
| 0:06.5 | with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews. |
| 0:10.4 | Now here's your host, David Loi. |
| 0:13.7 | Hi and welcome to In the Loop with Andy Andrews. |
| 0:16.5 | I'm your host, David Loy. |
| 0:17.9 | Andy, thanks for joining us once again. |
| 0:20.4 | Oh, glad to be here, David. Glad to be here. I'm glad we're talking on the phone that I'm not |
| 0:27.6 | having to type or anything. My hand is killing me. What happened to your hand? I fell. I was |
| 0:34.9 | very stupid and I was walking on a like a boardwalk thing and I fell, I was very stupid and I was walking on a boardwalk thing and I fell and there was like a galvanized wire that was within reach and I grabbed it and it kind of took my full weight and pulled a lot of skin from my hand. |
| 0:56.3 | Oh, no. |
| 0:57.3 | And if that sounds like, if that sounds painful, you are very perceptive, my son. |
| 1:04.3 | Because it hurt like crazy. |
| 1:07.1 | Unbelievable. |
| 1:08.0 | And then, you know, I was kind of, I was out in the woods and didn't really have a lot of gear to, like, first aid type of thing. And the first thing I could get to it, I hesitate to say what I did, you know, like to kind of clean it up because it would make somebody would faint because I almost did. |
| 1:30.8 | But let me just tell you, I had that germex, you know, that germex. |
| 1:35.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:36.5 | And when I slapped that stuff on my palm, because a lot of the skin is gone from my palms and fingers. |
| 1:46.1 | And when I slapped that on there, |
| 1:50.2 | every scream from childhood of my mother pouring alcohol on a badly stubbed toe came back to me a 20-fold. |
| 2:06.2 | Oh, no. |
| 2:07.2 | It really hurt. |
| 2:10.5 | Wow. |
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