Hi, this is Janet Landsbury, welcome to Unruffold.

Today I'm thrilled to have a very special guest with me on the phone, Laura Grace Weldon.

Laura's popular book, Free Range Learning, How Home Schooling Changes Everything is an

indispensable guide to natural learning.

Laura is an author, an educator, a self-described farm wench, she's a poet, and a perpetual

optimist.

And for me, and really one of the reasons I wanted Laura on here besides her pearls of wisdom

and her expertise on this topic that I know will be interesting to my listeners, I find

her a kindred spirit.

I've only engaged with her online, and still I feel a kinship with her, I feel like we

have a lot in common, we have kind of a similar sense of humor.

There's a lot of downsides to the way that we engage with each other, I think, these days

on computers, but for me this is one of the upsides that you can actually meet someone,

feel like you know someone a little bit just through their writing and the way that you've

engaged with them online, and we share each other's work, and I've just really enjoyed

getting to know her, and this is the first time I'm getting to speak to her as a live

person, so I'm very excited about that.

Summer's fast approaching, and it's going to be a hot one.

So hydration is more important than ever.

Even everyday activities like a trip to the playground, date the beach or an amusement

park, walking the dog, house cleaning, long airplane flights, a night on the town, all

these can cause dehydration, sap our energy, and keep us from feeling our best.

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