Called out by 5th graders

I was called out today by a 5th grade class. I said "you guys are being so disrespectful." A student immediately responded, "you have a smile on your face." Another one chimed in, "yeah! You're smiling!" I said, "wow, thank you for letting me know. I always tell students that their face has to match their words or people won't hear what they are saying." Lessoned learned. I schooled myself.

Trista, get it together. Your words need to match your face. You are sending mixed messages.

This is a reminder to me that I need to be more aware of what I am communicating through my body language- kinesics.

Over protective

I was reminded this week of how protective I am of my people. If I let you into my circle, I get super over protective. If I feel something or someone is coming at you even a tish sideways, and I hear about, see it, or find out about it, I literally feel the hair on the back of my neck rise. I cannot handle it. I have to step into it somehow. You wanna do it to me, fine whatever, I will deal, but you better back up off my people.