Welcome to the Wild and Free podcast, episode 37.

I'm Ainsley Arment, and this week you'll hear from the always refreshing veteran homeschooling mama, Terry Woods.

We're talking about our summer plans, whether to keep homeschooling until fall or take the season off.

So grab a cup of coffee and join us on the front porch.

Let's get started.

Music and join us on the front porch. Let's get started. We're going to hear from Terry Woods in just a little bit.

She offers an honest take on her view of summer.

I mean, it's just not good for anybody to have three months of purposelessness.

I mean, that's just not healthy.

So, yes, everybody needs a little time off to regroup and, you know, have a little vacation,

but no kid needs three months of going to the pool every day.

Right, right, right.

But first, I can't begin to tell you how much I love this month's content bundle called Make. It's packed full of amazing resources that will help create an irresistible learning environment in your home.

Our friend Sarah Earnsch shares how she created little maker spaces all over

her house so her daughter could discover new passions and hidden talents through art, photography, and

gardening. And it's because of certain things that we have put focus on that I have seen

very deep interests begin to be rooted in her.

And that's where the maker space itself even came from.

Sarah Fremont shares about a woman who became a pen pal to C.S. Lewis when she was just a 12-year-old girl

and how that inspired her own children to write letters to their favorite authors and illustrators.

And I thought, how can we do that today?

Who's inspiring my children that we could write to?

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