Welcome to the Wild and Free Podcast, Episode 1.

Our theme is playful.

I'm Ainsley Arment, and joining me today is Tina Engled.

In just a little bit, we're going to hear an interview between Jennifer Pippito and Stephanie Beatty.

So get your cup of coffee and join us on the front porch.

Let's get started.

Thank you. on the front porch. It's a theme of wild and free. We talk about play a lot. And we talk about childhood a lot and just giving our kids time to play.

And so we just decided to create a whole bundle just all about being playful.

I think one of the main things that we wanted to do was not just talk about play.

Like what is play, you know, for one.

I think we're like, our kids have no problem playing.

If anything, we're like, okay, we're going to run to the bathroom real quick. And then we come back and all hell is broken

loose and they're in 18 different directions. Like our kids don't have problems playing. You know,

it's just natural for them. We can't even. We're like, oh, and then how do you know? Like, Do you like try to steer them back to like the tablework or the bookwork or Yeah. Yeah.

Like how do you handle that?

I don't know.

Yeah.

Well, I definitely think there's intentional play and non-intentional play.

And for us, like as a part of homeschooling, intentional play really means that we, you know,

we gather together at a specific place,

whether it's outside on a blanket or at our kitchen table, and we do something intentional.

Like if I, you know, feel like maybe math is something that we're really struggling with,

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