Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, May 7th.

Most moms and dads mean well, but it's easy to get distracted by the wrong things.

Listen to today's podcast and discover how to strengthen your parenting and guide your children with wisdom.

Do you ever think of yourself as a communicator?

Or more than likely, you would say no, but the truth is you are. You communicate through your eyes, through your facial expressions, through your voice,

through your gestures, through your posture, through your dress, through your presence, or your absence, and sometimes

powerfully through your silence. And when I think about what parents communicate to their

children, the kind of awesome effects that have upon them. And the truth is it has lasting effects.

And all of us are the products

of what our parents have communicated to us. And somebody says, well, but my parents passed

away when I was very young in life, or they left me at my grandmother's house and, or they

divorced and walked away. It doesn't make any difference what they did.

They communicated a message to you and you either interpreted it properly or incorrectly.

And it has had an effect upon you. It will always have an effect upon you as long as you live.

Because you see, we don't outgrow those things that are communicated to us. Now once in a while

we may recognize because it keeps coming back like a tape something that was communicated to us.

And once you identify, if it's not a good thing, and you identify it's been playing all

of your life for years and years and years,

you can take that tape out, you can correct it.

But oftentimes we never stop to think, where did that come from?

Communicated to you probably before you realized what was happening.

And I want us to think about these messages that we send as parents.

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