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The Call of the Wild and Free
The Call of the Wild and Free: Reclaiming Wonder in Your Child's Education | Ainsley Arment
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Allow your children to experience the adventure, freedom, and wonder of childhood with this practical guide that provides all the information, inspiration, and advice you need for creating a modern, quality homeschool education. Inspired by the spirit of Henry David ThoreauAll good things are wild and freemother of five Ainsley Arment founded Wild + Free. This growing online community of mothers and families want their children to receive a quality education at home by challenging their intellectual abilities and nurturing their sense of curiosity, joy and awethe essence of a positive childhood. The homeschool approach of past generations is goneincluding the stigma of socially awkward kids, conservative clothes, and a classroom setting replicated in the home. The Wild + Free movement is focused on a love of nature, reading great books, pursuing interests and hobbies, making the entire world a classroom, and prolonging the wonder of childhood, an appealing philosophy that is unpacked in the pages of this book The Call of the Wild and Free offers advice, information, and positive encouragement for parents considering homeschooling, those currently in the trenches looking for inspiration, as well as parents, educators, and caregivers who want supplementary resources to enhance their kids traditional educations.
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ShaniaAJ
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If you‘re on the fence about possibly wanting to homeschool and not sure if it‘s for you, this is a good read.

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ravenlee
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One of the better homeschool books I‘ve read (and I read a lot of them!), though it‘s short on specifics. It‘s philosophy-heavy rather than prescriptive, and while it includes summaries of the main schools of thought (including one I‘ve never heard of) it‘s aimed more at what all homeschool families can embrace together - nature, play, story, creativity, and relationships, for instance. I‘m considering buying my own copy and subscribing. Maybe.

Alfoster Sounds good! Both my daughters homeschool…I‘ll ck it out! 3y
ravenlee @Alfoster The author has been running an online community for several years, apparently - they‘re on Facebook (which I found) and Instagram (which I don‘t do). Seems to be a surprisingly robust movement! 3y
Alfoster In a nutshell, what‘s the movement about? 3y
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ravenlee @Alfoster basically, it‘s about getting outside as much as possible (some Charlotte Mason inspiration) and giving kids the freedom to have a real childhood. She‘s very supportive and inclusive of the differences in individual homeschools and focuses on how we can all try to let our kids be kids as much as possible and embrace the freedom to adapt everything to what‘s best for the children. 3y
Alfoster Thanks for that! I think our girls do that a lot as they have plenty of outdoor space and encourage “play” all the time. Appreciate you taking the time to tell me!👊❤️ 3y
ravenlee @Alfoster glad to share! I‘ve read so many of these books that are preachy or too narrowly focused, so it‘s nice to find one that felt good to read. 3y
Alfoster Absolutely agree! I taught high school English for almost 40 years and didn‘t know if homeschool would be good for the kids (as I‘d had many who were undisciplined and not willing to meet deadlines). But seems like there‘s so much good stuff out there and grandkids are way beyond where some of my kids were (well, figure 43 in my class and 4 in homeschool)! I help out now that I‘m retired and love it! 3y
ravenlee @Alfoster I found the web page for the Wild + Free homeschool community https://www.bewildandfree.org/ A lot of it is marketing their stuff, magazines or retreats or whatnot, but still some worthwhile reads. 3y
Alfoster Thanks!!!👊 3y
Alfoster Older daughter said she‘s on this website all the time and it‘s good stuff!🥰 3y
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saresmoore
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Things are in transition with our cooperative school, so I‘ve been doing a lot of hard thinking and brainstorming for next year. This book is just the encouragement I needed, plus the photos are gorgeous. I highly recommend this for any parent contemplating or even in the midst of #homeschooling or #unschooling.

saresmoore Shout out to @Suet624 who gave me these amazing socks that I‘m pretty sure will last forever! ♥️ 4y
Suet624 I‘m fairly certain they came with a lifetime guarantee. Seriously. 💕💕 4y
Lindy @Suet624 @saresmoore Are they made by Darn Tough? They will replace for free. I‘ve got a couple of pairs that seem like they‘ll never wear out, but I know a cross-country skier who has traded in his worn socks. Icebreaker also has no-questions-asked replacement on any of their socks that wear out. 4y
Suet624 @Lindy yes. They are darn tough socks. They are based on Vermont and expanding into bigger facilities. They are such yummy socks. 4y
Lindy @Suet624 🧦👍 4y
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