Welcome to the Wild and Free Podcast, Episode 15.

I'm Ainslie Armentz here with Tina Ingold, and today we're talking about our summer

reading list just for us, mamas, as well as ways we'll be sneaking and learning opportunities

for our kids throughout the summer.

You'll also hear a conversation with Jennifer Pepito and Ria Berg, all about traveling

the world with her kids as part of their homeschooling journey.

So grab a cup of coffee and join us on the front porch. Let's get started. I was going to ask you if you were planning to read anything this summer.

Yes, I do have a few on my list.

And I know you're an avid reader, so I'm anxious to hear what books you would recommend reading.

Well, this summer, I really want to get back into reading fiction.

I go in phases with it.

I love fiction, but because I'm homeschooling, sometimes I feel like I can't just sit down and read a book for no good reason.

You feel guilty.

Yes, yeah. So one thing that I'm going to do is my husband just finished his second novel. He doesn't let me read it as he writes it.

We just got it bound and I'm going to sit down and read that. So that'll be my fiction indulgence. But two of my favorites that I'm going to reread this summer that I haven't

read in a while are a Charlotte Mason Companion by Karen Andriola. And I want to reread learning all

the time by John Holt. I know we talk about John Holt sometimes, but I love all of his books, and that's one that I wanted to sort of reread that I read

a while ago. And Charlotte Mason Companion was super formative for me in the early years of homeschooling

before I knew what the different styles were, the different methods of homeschooling, and my good

friends sent it to me, and it's just become a great resource. I love it. It just sort of gives me a vision for what I want the learning

environment to look like in our home. Yeah, that's wonderful. I'm going to be rereading those two.

And then a new one that I just saw on Zane Schweiger's Instagram, she had posted a pile of books,

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