> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.gilespcroft.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Mind names - URL: https://www.gilespcroft.com/mind-names/ - Published: 2025-03-19T07:00:00.000Z - Updated: 2025-11-25T22:58:02.000Z - Description: That time my daughter gave the whole family's Ego Constructs their own names! 📩 - Author: Giles P Croft - Tags: Mental Health, Parenting, Psychology, Real stories, Relationships, Thought realisation, MECHANICS This is just too good – one morning, our daughter decided to give everyone’s mind a name. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/f3/9bf3d316-7d32-494b-814f-a7d94d6358c3/content/images/2025/11/2025-03-19-Mind-names.jpg) What goes on in that child's head?! 😆 đŸ˜‚đŸ€Ł How this came about, I don’t know, but it was hilarious when it did. I absolutely *love* that she called her own **“Jobert”** – it’s such a pedantic-sounding, jobsworth kind of idiot to have living in your head. Mum didn’t fare so well – Rho chose **“Flizz-bobatt”** on her behalf, and I can’t say it’s really stuck. Then came me. > “Dad, what do you call yours?” > *“Giles.”* > “But you *are* Giles!” > *“No I’m not
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 Oh good lord it’s all too complicated for this time of the morning – I’ve not even had coffee yet!* đŸ„Ž *OK, here you go – when I write about mind-stuff, I refer to it as the G.E.C.* 📩 *or the “Giles Ego Construct.” Is that any good?* 
and this is what she produced: **“The great egotistical construct of camomile stew.”** Ha ha ha ha ha!! 😂 --- ### Anyway
 The good news is, this is already bearing fruit, because it’s starting to get her detached from her thinking – to stop identifying it as actually *being* her. đŸ™ŒđŸ» All three of us have, on occasion, suggested that **Jobert’s** being particularly judgmental, or demanding, or pernickety
 and it’s really put a different spin on things for her. It must be said though, that currently she’s not great pals with **Jobert**—*“I *HATE* Jobert!!!”* has been heard bouncing off the walls on more than one occasion—so little by little I’ll be encouraging a more benign relationship, where **Jobert** is seen for the well-meaning, innocently over-protective dufus that he is. Something to be understood and treated with empathy. (Because you can’t get started too early on ‘self’-compassion, can you?) --- Of the three Croft family mind names, only **“Jobert”** has really stood the test of time, and is proving to be a useful metaphor, going forward. I’m not sure I’ve really taken on board this “G.E.C. camomile-stew” name she’s given *my* mind. At all! Thankfully, this is not the first time she’s assigned me a new name. Years ago, for reasons known only to her (that she found *very* funny indeed), she proudly produced the following for me, which I think is a far more suitable moniker for that noisy simpleton in my head: ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/f3/9bf3d316-7d32-494b-814f-a7d94d6358c3/content/images/2025/11/2025-03-19-Mind-names---Jeff-the-Toilet.jpg) “Jeff the toilet”!!!! đŸ€Ł With love as always
 💟 Giles (aka **“Jeff the toilet”**) p.s. Have you named yours? If so, what do you call it? (Let us know in the comments, below.) And more importantly, are you NICE to it???