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Today\u2019s recycled post was pulled from the August, 2009 file. It\u2019s a snapshot of the month before the release of A Different Dream for My Child<\/a>, complete with technical challenges, and hot weather. Reading through it, I was struck by how similar this August is to that one. Preparations are underway for the release of Different Dream Parenting<\/a>, a nice techie guy is patiently helping me revamp www.jolenephilo.com, and <\/a>the weather is hot and miserable.<\/p>\n

Sheer Torture – Recycled<\/strong><\/p>\n

For most of my life, August has been a torturous month, and not just because of the almost unbearable heat and humidity that makes the corn in these parts grow while the people wilt. For my sixteen years as a student and my twenty-five years as a teacher, it marked another unwelcome event: the return to school.<\/p>\n

When I left teaching six years ago, August became one of my favorite months. No return to a hot, sticky classroom for me. No abrupt loss of freedom, piles of papers to grade, endless teachers\u2019 meetings to attend, or reluctant students to corral. Every August I kicked up my heels, said a few prayers for my teacher friends, and typed away, though it took three or four years before my stomach quit twisting into knots at the sight of the back-to-school ads.<\/p>\n

So far, this August has again been sheer torture. Why, you ask, when A Different Dream for Your Child<\/em> will be released September 1? Isn\u2019t your life exciting and fun now?<\/p>\n

No, and I\u2019ll tell you why. Preparing for the book\u2019s release, which is the only thing on my to do list for the month, and more specifically, getting www.differentdream.com<\/a>, the book\u2019s companion website, up and running, is sheer torture. And to make matters worse, I\u2019m paying a web designer good money to enter the torture chamber and turn the screws. He\u2019s a very polite and knowledgeable young man who has yet to snicker at the inane questions I ask him, though there\u2019s no hidden camera recording his behavior after our phone conversations end.<\/p>\n

But, he\u2019s a pretty tough task master, none the less. He even offered to assign homework and deadlines if I needed more motivation. I declined since September 1 is plenty motivating. Under his insistent, patient tutelage, this old dog is learning a whole lot of techie tips, and the website is taking shape.<\/p>\n

Will it be up and running by the book release date? Yes, in fact you can go to it now and see how it\u2019s progressing.<\/p>\n

But will the site be perfectly complete? No. And something I learned during my teaching days keeps my perfectionistic self from imposing unrealistic expectations this torturous August. One long ago day, when I was stressing myself out by trying to be ready for the entire year before the first day of school, the realization dawned that I didn\u2019t need to be completely ready. I only needed to be ready for the first day, or maybe for the first week. Immediately, my stress level plummeted, along with my blood pressure and crabbiness. The last bit made my family very, very happy.<\/p>\n

If I can keep that lesson in mind this August, maybe the whole month won\u2019t be sheer torture. Maybe the web designer and I will even become friends, though that\u2019s doubtful. In my opinion, he\u2019s in the same category as my gynecologist.<\/p>\n

Enough said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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