Good listening is important. Whether you are a student, wife or a parent, how you listen will determine if you get the message that a speaker intended for you. Good listening is a skill. These three roles all require the three basics' steps of a good listener. Hearing. Hearing means listening enough to catch what the speaker is saying. Understanding. Understanding happens when you take what you have heard and understand it in your own way or words. Judging. Judging is understanding what the speaker has said, think whether it makes sense. No matter what role I am in I value to listen the same. Sometimes each role maybe more challenging for me to be a good listener, but I know that I have a duty to fulfill. That is why my role as a student, wife and parent are important in my life.
             Listening can be difficult or challenging no matter who or what situation you may encounter. Pretending Attention, Yield to Distraction and Pencil and Paper Listening is some of my difficult listening skill. Pretending Attention is where I seem like I am listening, but in all reality I sometimes am off in another world. Yield to Attention is doing something that distracts me from listening. I often am in that state when I am a wife and parent. It just seems like when I am with my child or husband I am sometimes distracted with everyday house hold chores. This bad listening skill sometimes causes arguments between me and the speaker. Things like, you are not paying attention, why can't you just stop what you are doing for five minutes and listen to me or my child gets to the point where she feels she has to go to someone else for an answer. I would say that has a big effect on my family relationship. Pretending Attention and Pencil and Paper Listening is when I appear to be listening, but am off in another world sometimes. I also try to write down everything the speaker says but I am not understanding what they are actuall...