ITL179: How to Get Your Kids to Take Your Advice Seriously
In the Loop with Andy Andrews
Matt Lempert
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode, I answer a listener question on how to get your kids to take your advice.
Kids tend to listen to somebody else before they listen to their parents.
- There are tons of adults who have quit learning and thinking years ago.
- If you want your kids to listen, you better make sure you are a person worth listening to.
- If we want kids to be open to our advice and seek wise counsel, we must be wise counsel.
- Wise counsel includes the timing of when you say things and how you say them.
I am a friend to my boys, but I am also their parent.
- Be friends to have tons of conversations.
- Talk about what they want to talk about.
- We want them to have the opportunity to teach us.
I’m not a fly fisherman, but I have a son who is really interested in it.
- When he shows me something, I ask how he does it or where he learned it, and all of a sudden he is giving me a lesson.
- A great majority of parents spend most of their time disciplining or warning their children, and kids get tired of it.
One of the worst things you can do in marketing is to market all the time.
- Your product may be valuable, but people will avoid you if they feel bombarded.
- One of the best things you can do is to give value and help with something unrelated.
- You can then mention what you’re selling every now and then, and it doesn’t make people want to avoid talking to you.
- This concept can and should be applied to parenting as well!
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. Now here's your host, David Loy. |
| 0:13.3 | Hi and welcome to In The Loop with Andy Andrews. I'm your host, David Loy. Andy, thanks for |
| 0:19.1 | joining us again this week. Thank you, David. |
| 0:21.7 | I appreciate being here and appreciate you being here. |
| 0:24.6 | And so this is always fun for me. |
| 0:27.2 | And I hope people are enjoying it and passing them around. |
| 0:31.5 | And once again, let me just make a plea right at the beginning. |
| 0:36.4 | If you find some value in this, please help us connect with some other people. |
| 0:43.3 | We do these for you. |
| 0:45.5 | And as you know, they are free. |
| 0:47.7 | And so all we ask is that if you can, help me with my mission. |
| 0:53.5 | And my mission is to help other people live the |
| 0:57.4 | lives they would if they only knew how. And so, you know, I'm, I'm into helping people |
| 1:03.3 | solve some challenges or getting through some thinking issues. And we're all in this together. You know, I'm not putting myself out there |
| 1:12.9 | some kind of an expert. I'm a dad. I'm a husband. I'm a friend. And I'm learning as hard and fast as I can. |
| 1:19.7 | And so I enjoy this podcast because we're able to learn together. Absolutely. Andy, I'm glad |
| 1:25.0 | you mentioned that. And I think that everybody knows, or if you've |
| 1:27.6 | listened to this show, you know, but if you're new, just a reminder that the purpose of this show is |
| 1:33.4 | to explore topics together and to deal with life situations. And most of our shows are centered around |
| 1:41.1 | questions from listeners. Occasionally, we'll talk about personal things that are going on with Andy or a topic that |
| 1:48.1 | he's passionate about or a new book that's coming out or something along those lines or |
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