Are you an active listener?
Active listening is a communication technique that requires the listener to understand, interpret, and evaluate what they hear. - Wikipedia Image by highersights via Flickr If you've ever wanted to learn how to communicate effectively, sit among a group of teenagers . If your words can get through all of the noise around them (literally not just metaphorically as they're usually listening to music while texting and updating their Facebook page) then you may just be an effective communicator. I'm surrounded by teens at least once a week, if not more, as my kids are notorious for bringing their friends over, using my house as a hang-out place or just a place they can come and be "themselves". Hubby and I are very open-minded and encouraging of our kids to look at all of the sides of a situation before accepting anything they hear or see as "fact" and their friends tend to enjoy that about being in our company. Doesn't hurt we have HD TV , hi...