ITL222: Should You Give Your Children an Allowance?
In the Loop with Andy Andrews
Matt Lempert
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2016
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode, I answer a listener question on allowance, tithes, and savings.
You should become a person who studies parenting whether you have kids or not because it has to do with employee/employer relations, sales, and almost every form of society.
- Parenting is the fulcrum that society tilts upon.
- If we want our children to achieve great things as an adult, we must be responsible, calm, and able to provide an understanding of how things work.
We don’t give the boys money for anything.
- They do chores and their reward is they get to live in our house. That is being part of the family.
- We sometimes give them gifts, but if something is not taken care of, it’s not just about the money, it’s about what the money represents.
God commands us to give.
- If we look at money as a blessing, giving the first of it is saying we trust there will be enough.
- I have lived very close to the bone a number of years and I must say that when Polly and I started tithing, it was really at the insistence of Polly.
- As I began to learn how to tithe properly, I realized we were never without.
Listen to the entire episode to hear about one of the proudest moments of Andy’s life.
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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. Now here's your host, David Loy. |
| 0:13.4 | Hi and welcome to In The Loop with Andy Andrews. I'm your host, David Loy. Andy, how are you today? |
| 0:19.1 | Good, man. How are you? I am terrific. I thought of you |
| 0:22.1 | actually at church last week, and here's why. We're there. And, you know, we're in, I'm in Franklin, |
| 0:30.0 | Tennessee, and I go to Grace Chapel, which is in Leepers Fork. You're down in Alabama, but, so I'm |
| 0:36.3 | just explaining to you the background of this story. |
| 0:38.9 | What a great name for a town, Leepers Fork. |
| 0:41.1 | Leepers Fork. There you go. |
| 0:42.9 | So we're in church. |
| 0:44.0 | I'm sitting in the balcony because my wife and I got there a little bit late. |
| 0:48.1 | And, of course, it starts. |
| 0:50.3 | Whose fault was it? |
| 0:51.7 | Definitely mine. |
| 0:53.9 | Typically it would be hers, but in this situation, |
| 0:57.3 | it was my fault. And if it was hers, I don't think I could say that on the podcast, because she might |
| 1:03.1 | get upset. Yeah, I was going to say. So we're in the balcony because we're late, and the music's going, |
| 1:08.1 | and it's rocking, and we've got an amazing band at the church. |
| 1:11.7 | But specifically, I start to hear just some crazy piano playing. |
| 1:17.3 | And I'm thinking, man, this guy is just ripping it up. |
| 1:20.7 | It's terrific and the music's just cranking along. |
| 1:23.2 | But I could not see the piano player. |
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