ITL220: The Case for Considering Alternative Schooling
In the Loop with Andy Andrews
Matt Lempert
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2016
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode, I answer a listener question on finding the right fit when choosing a school for your kids.
The 7th and 8th grade years are critical
- It’s when kids are really deciding what they believe and who they think is cool.
- There is not a more critical time to create a great relationship with your child.
- We homeschooled Austin in the 7th and 8th grade, and some people might say that homeschooling is not preparing someone for the real world.
- If you met Austin now, you might think that he seems more mature than some of his peers.
The social aspects of high school seem to be incredibly important to parents who look back on high school as being the best time of their lives.
- If everything was downhill from high school, you’re probably dying for your kid to go to every party and social event.
- However, you’re in high school a very short time; the rest of your life should be more important and get better and better.
- How do you want your kids socialized? Do you want them to adopt different standards?
- We were able to take Austin places and have him meet people and see how life goes on—he was socialized with adults.
- I will admit that at 16 years of age, he seems to be more comfortable in the company of adults.
Tune in to hear how Andy believes trust issues with teens are best eliminated, and more on how educational environments impact different kids in different ways, at different ages.
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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 Loy. |
| 0:12.9 | Hi, and welcome to In the Loop with Andy Andrews. |
| 0:15.8 | I'm your host, David Loy, and Andy, we're together again here, and we just had a brief interruption a second ago from |
| 0:22.0 | Polly, who came down from upstairs and Robert, who joined us as well. |
| 0:26.2 | I was thinking probably too late, we should have had them join us on the episode. |
| 0:31.1 | But then I was thinking, well, that's probably not a good idea because we'd be here for three hours if Robert was on. |
| 0:36.8 | Yeah, for sure, yeah yeah but we do need to have |
| 0:38.9 | polly back on at some point yeah yeah we should that we should that was about a year ago i guess |
| 0:44.6 | that we did an episode with her i'll uh try to find that episode number in a second but um she's always |
| 0:50.3 | a delight to have on the show in contrast to you thank you i'm not always a delight am i sometimes a delight you're occasionally a delight to have on the show, in contrast to you. Thank you. I'm not always a delight? Am I sometimes a delight? You're occasionally a delight. She is always a delight. You're batting about 500. She's batting a thousand. All right, all right. All right. We had a great voicemail that came in from Julie. So let me play that voicemail here in just a second. |
| 1:11.7 | But I want to remind people that the voicemails are always exciting. |
| 1:15.4 | We love hearing your questions. |
| 1:17.7 | And that phone number, if you want to call and ask Andy a question, that phone number again |
| 1:21.5 | is 1-800-726-2639. |
| 1:25.9 | Tell us your name, where you're calling from, and then ask your question, and we will play that on a future episode and get Andy's thoughts. So, Andy, let me play this voicemail from Julie. |
| 1:36.4 | This is from Julie. It is. |
| 1:37.9 | Julie, Julie, Julie, do you love me? Do you remember that song? |
| 1:42.3 | I do not. |
| 1:42.8 | You do not. Because you're too young. Bobby Sherman. Bobby Sherman. All right. I song? I do not. You do not. Who signed that? Because you're too young. |
| 1:44.7 | Bobby Sherman. |
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