Welcome to the InTouch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, May 12th.

When it comes to our children, what we say and what we don't say can have far-reaching

effects.

Get help recognizing and correcting the potentially damaging attitudes you might be delivering

to your kids.

Here's part two of Messages Parents Send.

All of us are communicators and we're communicating messages sometimes very overtly.

We say, I love you or we may say, I don't like you.

Or sometimes it can be a very subtle kind of communication.

And you know that you can look with someone else and look in their eyes and never blink

and send a message, I love you.

Or you can send a simple facial expression of approval or disapproval.

With your gestures you can talk about without even saying a word.

Thinking about how intense you are feeling and the way you carry yourself either humped

over or standing straight.

There are all different kinds of ways we communicate, sometimes in pure silence.

We were all communicators.

And there's one group of communicators that I want to talk about primarily though all

of us are and all of us are sending messages and sometimes they're good, sometimes they're

not so good.

The problem is that oftentimes we don't realize what we communicate because you see it's

not what we think, it's what we communicate to people that impacts their lives.

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