ITL193: How to Boost Your Kids' Earning Potential Before They Reach Adulthood
In the Loop with Andy Andrews
Matt Lempert
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2015
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode, I answer a followup listener question on how Polly and I taught the boys to communicate to adults.
It was a very intentional process.
- Polly and I wanted to raise a boy who would turn into a 15-year-old young man; we wanted people in passing to be blown away by his maturity.
- Some people say “Yes, ma’am” and “Yes, sir” is just a regional thing, but don’t we know people in California who are from Georgia?
- After years of thinking this through, the reason to go through the extra trouble of making children say “Yes, sir” is because everyone who looks at this kid will think he is mature and respectful.
The opportunities for well-mannered kids are endless.
- There is a small percentage of people who think it’s disrespectful not to say, “Yes, sir.”
- People who don’t think it’s necessary won’t be offended by it.
- Why not make sure your children are showing respect to 100% of the people they talk to?
- Remember, manners are money!
We started teaching them to talk this way as soon as they could speak.
- When they would say, “No,” we would say, “No, sir?”
- They may not have been able to say the “Sir” in the beginning, but they eventually picked it up after hearing it whenever they said “Yes” or “”
Tune in to the full episode to learn more secrets to teaching kids good manners, and hear Andy SING! (He lets you in on “the height of a piggy’s ambition, from the day he is born…”)
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to In the Loop, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews. |
| 0:10.0 | Now here's your host, David Loy. |
| 0:13.0 | Hi and welcome to In the Loop with Andy Andrews. I'm your host, David Loy. |
| 0:17.0 | Andy, thanks for joining us again this week. |
| 0:19.0 | Thank you, David. |
| 0:20.0 | Hey, I was, I had the privilege of being around your awesome family recently. Yes. And both of your boys are fantastic. Obviously, we had, we had Austin on the podcast a few weeks back. Right, right. We were getting a great response about that. But your other son, Adam, who's 12, right? |
| 0:38.4 | Yes, Adam is my funny boy. |
| 0:41.1 | He's the funny one. |
| 0:42.3 | In fact, when I get, you know, how you go, Austin, Adam, shoot, and you mix up there. |
| 0:48.7 | And I'll say, which one are you? |
| 0:50.5 | Adam goes, I'm the funny one. |
| 0:53.1 | I heard him actually saying that as well. And then he also |
| 0:56.0 | said, and I'm the sweet one too. He's probably, probably true. Yeah, he is the nice way. He, but he is |
| 1:03.2 | extremely intelligent. He has an amazing memory. I have heard him quote lines from several movies |
| 1:09.7 | that you've said, y'allall the family's only seen once and |
| 1:12.9 | I know that the family one of the family's favorites is oh brother where art thou but it feels like |
| 1:16.8 | adam can quote that entire movie backwards if he wanted it is amazing it's amazing and Adam has |
| 1:23.3 | whatever that and polly always says you know I said about me that I've been cursed to remember |
| 1:29.4 | every single thing I ever heard. And it's really kind of true because I hear everything. And Adam and I |
| 1:36.8 | both are ADD. And so we, you know, and when we're in the car, Adam and I, both of us, we're like, hey, we can either talk or we can have the radio on, but we can't do both. |
| 1:51.3 | I mean, I really can't do both because I listen. I hear it. I can't talk to you because I'm hearing the radio. |
| 1:59.5 | And it's tough for me sometimes in restaurants because I |
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