Remembering Names

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