In The Loop with Andy Andrews, hosted by David Loy
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.
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.
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?
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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