What a relief! I’ve just finished the updated version of the Hooked on LATCH presentation CD. This package of four PowerPoint shows for CPST refreshers and update classes was originally the brainchild of Mary Anderson and me, after we had finished the 2009 LATCH Manual. Translating key messages from the LM seemed like a great idea. But after the long struggle of giving birth to it, I promptly forgot the pain.So, once the 2011 manual was finished, I nonchalantly said “no problem” to the idea of “just” updating our original work. I was excited to have a chance to make this tool even more useful and to incorporate all the changes in the LATCH world that fascinate me.
I thought of Mary every step of the way. Reviewing, reorganizing, and adding new slides for four interrelated presentations plus rewriting presenter notes was like going through the four stages of labor all over again. Now, four months later, it is finally ready to burn to disk and send out to all of you who have been waiting patiently.
So this afternoon I feel like I’m walking a few feet off the ground! I’m ready to forget the pain once again and move on—out to the garden on this lovely spring day.
Deborah
P.S. And I really will be up in the air tomorrow. Next stop, a CPS research conference in Detroit on Friday.
