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Last week I miscommunicated with both my mom and my sister. Some things that contributed to this accident was my lack of clarification and reflection. I completely forgot to clarify with my my mom about when she was coming home on Thursday afternoon so that I could figure out if I needed to drop my sister off at practice and pick her up after. I took her to practice and got her there a few minutes late because Emily wasn't ready for her practice, then when I dropped her off I didn't think to clarify if she had a ride home. Also I need to clarify that she didn't have her phone because she had broken it earlier in the week.

Another mistake in communicating that I had made was not being sympathetic to the fact that my mom works all day and there was no way that she would have been able to pick my sister up from her school at 12:30 pm.

When I finally got to her school to pick her up at like 1:05 pm I was frustrated that I didn't think of the fact that I would be picking my sister up after practice and so I was also a little bit frustrated that no one had reminded me. A couple of things could have come out of my mouth when I got there to pick her up. Instead of going with why didn't you do something, I decided to make sure that she was alright and I tried to make it up to her as best I could. We went to mcdonalds and I bought her lunch. I think by saying those things I was able to communicate effectively.

My sister and I also discussed how that could have gone better. She was saying that she could double check with me that I was taking her home to from practice. Also I said that I need to double check with mom before her practice even starts and possibly the night before. Also I need to set a rim index for myself on my phones because to tell you the truth when my mom texted to me at 1:00 to ask if I was going to pick up Emily I was watching a movie. Whoops.

When we were finally done talking about it I said a joke about how she is the youngest and it's something that would typically happen to a younger sibling. She thought it was funny and laughed, putting us in a better mood so that we could go to Akron later that afternoon for the rest of our spring break.

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Something I lacked was sympathy and in the Heath book unit 3 page 3 sympathy is explained as, "To do this you need to be aware of what is going on in other people’s lives.”
I did not think about what my mom had goig on that day

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When I wanted to go over how the day could have gone better, I did as the unit 3 health textbook says on page 3 to, “take a moment and pay close attention to what you say and how you say it.  Focus on the meaning of what you want to communicate.” I did this so that I could show my sister that I felt bad for her and cared for her but I was also a little bit frustrated by the miscommunication.

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At the end of our conversation I told a joke for the purpose said in the unit 3 health textbook on page 4, that says, “Use your sense of humor to break the ice, to lower barriers and gain the affection of others.” This joke really was to just confirm for my sister that I really was sorry and that it was a big mess up. And hopefully it gained some affection from her.