Are my parents paying attention to me?

Are they looking at their phone?

Are they engaged?

Are they listening to what I have to say?

Are they paying attention to who I am?

Because I think when they experience that unconditional love at home,

then they take that confidence out into the world.

Well, we have Melanie Shankill joining us again today to hear more about how God brought healing and hope for her and how you can set a new path for your family.

Welcome to Focus on the Family with Jim Daly. I'm John Fuller.

You know, John, last time we talked with Melanie

about how our different upbringings affect the way we live as adults. I've experienced it.

You know, being in tune with those snaps, those things that you do, and then going, where did that

come from? If that's something you're saying to yourself, you need to stop and listen to this program

because those are the behaviors that we learn as children from our parents.

I'm hoping as a parent, my boy's got a lot of positive things, but I don't want to believe

that it was all positive.

I'm sure I gave them some things that they can work on to be better dads than I was.

And that's the attitude we want to talk about today with Melanie about moms and daughters mostly.

But dads, you're part of this too.

And we covered last time a lot of territory.

If you haven't heard that yet, I want to encourage you to go back.

Go to the website, get the download.

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