Can you name all of the pastries?
Do names evade you?
Be it people, titles, terms, or other entities? I’ve struggled all my life to learn the right word for a variety of things. When I built my own house, I would go to the hardware store countless times for something, be it a tool, screws, etc., and I could describe it to a T, but I wouldn’t know its name.
Add to this, the way I was treated being a female in a hardware store only added to my frustration of not knowing the name. Why are females labeled ignorant of building or repairing something?
What I became aware of within myself is that the name is minor to me, so I allow it to flow through me. It’s the purpose of the object, the soul of the human, and/or the emotion I am feeling that carries the weight and focus for me. Eventually, I would allow the word to sink into me, but it happens in its own time. (Could be years!)
Being this way made me a better teacher. When teaching a new term or stating one that I knew some students would understand and others would not, I found a creative way to state both the term and the definition. It served as an introduction, reinforcement, and/or reteach to my students. None of which embarrasses them by singling them out.
Since this realization of why words evade me, I have become more comfortable asking someone to repeat the name, term, etc, for I know it is my learning style and I am just being me!
Always with love, Carol