Ashley Willis explains how parental words become a child's inner voice, shaping their self-image and worldview. What parents say in arguments and daily life teaches kids how to see themselves, others, and authority. Children internalize these patterns, especially when they watch how their parents talk to each other.
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Sometimes, like, what. What we say to our kids the most becomes their inner voice. Have you heard that before? Where it's like. And sometimes the inner critic, like, if we've been really critical with our kids, that becomes their own inner critic that they carry into adulthood. And I don't know who I heard that from. Maybe it was on a podcast or something, but it really resonated with me because it's exactly what you're talking about, that words create worlds. And really, as parents, like, we're creating kind of shaping the world for our children and how they see it, how they see themselves, how they see, you know, other people, authority, all the things. How they even see God, you know, and. And I think it's just so. There's so much weight with it. And I do think, you know, since this is a marriage podcast, just kind of turning it back to marriage, I think that, you know, specifically when it comes to how we say things to our spouse and even our kids watching, like, the familial influence that we have there just. I don't. I think we underestimate that.