Welcome to the Intouch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, May 11th.

Most parents have good intentions, but sometimes cause issues by focusing on the wrong things.

Let's evaluate your parenting skills on today's message.

Do you ever think of yourself as a communicator?

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,

they 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 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,

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