Messages Parents Send - Part 2

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[upbeat music] Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, May 8th. What we say to our children, and what we don't, can leave a lasting impact. Listen to part two of Messages Parents Send and discover how your attitudes and behaviors matter.

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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. Or with your gestures, you can talk about, without even saying a word, something about how intense you're 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, but we're 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. And 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. And