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Today we're going to be talking about how to speak to your children. And this is really important for two reasons.

Number one, you're going to learn how you formed your identity in childhood based off what your parents said and what your parents

did. And number two, if you have children, this is going to help you form your children's identity

to help them become a great adult as they grow up. And this is important for me to cover

because in the coaching that I do, you know, with mindset

university and working with people in group coaching throughout the entire year, I'm the person

who talks to people and helps them identify their identity.

And the reason why this is important is because you can always trace somebody's identity

back to their parents, how their parents treated them,

and how their parents spoke to them as well. And so here's the wild part about all of it. Most of

that identity that we're talking about, you learned before you were seven years old. It's kind of

crazy. Not very much of it was learned after seven years old. There might be a few pieces,

maybe your first

heartbreak, all of that. When you look at it, you can start to see, oh my gosh, if it's seven,

I have three kids under the age of seven right now. Well, I need to really pay attention to the way

I speak to them, the way I speak around them. And also, if you don't have any kids, but you want kids, this is really important for you to understand. And if you never want kids, you're probably still have family members with kids.

So this is all just a really big deal. In the age of seven, when you look at it, you're like,

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