How I Learned to Listen Better

Today I learned how to listen better. As I planned my day I had no idea I was about to learn this lesson. In fact, my intention was to teach my own children to pay better attention when I asked them to do something and not to wander off distracted by texting, phone calls, the internet, video games and television. So we completely unplugged. The result, I heard what THEY had to say better! So while my intention was to improve on the behavior of my children, I learned it was ME that needed to have more focused attention on my children as well! Sigh! I am just like everyone else and constantly try to multi-task or rather 'multi-communicate' with the world I have become plugged in to. Our children are doing this as well, following our example and as a result find it difficult to be 'plugged in to' what we are trying to teach them. So today I learned to listen better, or rather, better said I learned how to LIVE better. Thank goodness, for children. Because they help us to keep on learning even after we thought we already knew it all, or maybe 'most' of it all!