In the Loop with Andy Andrews

ITL139: Surprising Things Your Kids Can Learn from a Garden

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On this week’s episode, I talk about the benefits of gardening with your family and answer a listener question on divided families.

 

We have a little garden of eight blackberry bushes that we planted three years ago.

  • The first year we got a few blackberries.
  • The second year we got a lot of blackberries.
  • This year we couldn’t pick them all at one time.

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    This is a great thing parents can do with their kids.

    • Get a couple of plants, take your kids in the backyard, dig a hole, pour some potting soil in it, and stick the plant in the yard.
    • This is what families used to do together.
    • We’ll spend an hour just picking berries and talking to each other.
    • Doing this teaches your children about end results.

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      Planting something is a great metaphor for life.

      • Zig Ziglar talked about planting a bamboo tree and growing it over ten-years.
      • You water and fertilize it for years without seeing results.
      • Then, in that last year, it will have grown 100-feet.
      • So… did it grow 100-feet in one year or ten years?

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        What can parents of divided families do to make sure they’re being as effective as they can?

        • One of the great strategies is for the mom and dad to get together and determine what they want the child’s adulthood to look like.
        • Write it down.
        • If you sit there and try to discuss methods, it’s going to be opinion vs. opinion.
        • Determine the result, and work backward from there.
        • Then, you can be more certain that when your child is not with you, the other parent is still aiming for the same result.

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          Check out Andy’s parenting series for more information. You will get access to over 80-minutes of free content in this 4-video series.

           

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