WordPress and The Non-techy!

This blog thing is NOT as easy as it looks!   I have never been extremely technical, but this experience has left me feeling like a kindergartner in a nuclear physics class!  Honestly, I have learned so much in such a short period of time, but I am still a newbie!  This is part of the life-long learning philosophy that we are modeling for the boys!  If we expect them to approach learning with an open and hungry attitude, we must remember they are watching us for how we react in our own learning opportunities.  Do we, as adults, expect more from our children than we are able to give ourselves?  If we are honest, the answer would be YES!  And then we usually try to figure out how to explain away the guilt we are now feeling for not being the role models we want to be all the time 🙂  In reality, even in these moments, we are teaching our children.  We need to learn to laugh at ourselves … lighten up!  It does not have to be perfect (in fact, it can’t be perfect)!  I’ll point out a few flaws I’ve seen on this blog that I’ve been aggressively working to figure out but they still have me completely stumped:

• Double menus… notice there is a menu running at the top of the page and another one below the logo.
• Speaking of the logo, notice the white around it?  Will be working with Adobe to get that corrected (have I mentioned I don’t know that package at all… LOL).
• The watermark on the logo.  THAT one is getting remedied this week.  Just trying to figure out which logo I like best… I will probably conduct a poll on that and ask for your input!
• The Paths of Exploration page is supposed to be a child to the Curriculum page… but it is hiding it.  Still working on that one too!
• The Classics page is supposed to be right before the Contact Us! page.  I know what I am supposed to do to reorder the pages… but it’s not working.  Still researching this one too.

See!  Life and Learning is messy, chaotic, hectic, and not linear!  So, we just need to accept it and show our children how to walk out learning in a messy, chaotic, hectic world 🙂  In the meantime, if anyone knows how to fix these things, let me know!!!

Until next time……

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Trish Corlew

Founder and Author at Live and Learn Farm

Trish has been married to her best friend, David, for 16 years and they have three sons (aged 13, 12 and 9). Trish is from the coast of North Carolina, but they now live in rural West Tennessee on a 40+ acre farm. She has been homeschooling since 2009 and her homeschool style leans towards a Montessori approach with a heavy emphasis on hands-on learning. They also own a small business that Trish runs from home. Trish’s family is Messianic and they love studying the Scriptures, learning Hebrew and growing in their faith and walk daily. In her spare time, Trish loves to write, work in their garden and can regularly be found trying to learn something new, modeling that learning is indeed a life-long endeavor!

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