Welcome to the Wild and Free podcast, Episode 38.

I'm Ainsley Arment, and this week we'll hear from Modern Miss Mason herself, Leah Bowden,

as well as our dear friend Cindy Rawlins, the author of Mere Motherhood,

plus a few special announcements.

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

Let's get started.

Music and join us on the same way. Learning at home gives us the opportunity to tailor each child's education according to their unique personalities, gifts, challenges, and preferences.

Not only does it go better for them, but it saves us the headache of trying to shoehorn one style of learning onto every child against their will.

We don't have to line up our kids and teach them the same way.

That's a classroom mentality.

The reason we teach them at home is to give them the freedom and the flexibility to learn in their own way.

The other day, I was talking with my dear friend Leah Bowden about this

very thing and I thought I'd share a part of our conversation with you here.

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I'm If we really consider Charlotte Mason's notion of children are born persons, then some of that for me is respecting our children's personality and how they view the world and how they engage with the world and what that looks like.

So rather than us forcing a way of learning upon them, you know, we may have planned it all out beautifully and we've printed

things out and laminated things over the summer. The reality is, are they engaging with it? Are they

finding life in that? Are they finding their own connections and able to, does it reach out into

them? And I think that's really important that all our children do see the world quite

differently. They approach learning quite differently. That's what I love about that notion of

children, our born persons, is that there's such a freedom is how we view them. And therefore,

we learn out of view our children in a certain way, which just frees up the outcomes often we think education is about

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