Welcome to the Wild and Free Podcast, episode four.

I'm Ainsley Arment, here with Tina Engold.

Today we have something really special for you.

It happened at one of our wild and free conferences.

It surprised the audience, and I think it's going to surprise you too.

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

Let's get started. So let's talk about ways to be playful in our learning and in our homeschools.

I think as moms, sometimes we feel, at least I do,

I need permission or affirmation to be playful with my kids or to let my kids be playful.

Like sometimes I think the things that resonate most with my heart are when I see moms being

really real just in life in general. Like recently, Greta

Eskridge, she did a story on what her house looks like after a day of homeschooling. Did you see that one by

any chance? It just cracked me up because I always feel this guilt that, I mean, my house looks like

a bomb went off, you know, after a day of homeschooling.

And I'm like, oh, I wonder if other people's house look like this. You know, you just feel kind of

self-conscious, I guess. But to see that on, yeah, to see that on her stories, I was like, yes,

yes, and then, you know, I think that is the same with play. You know, we kind of need that affirmation. Like,

it's okay to be playing with your kids and to be having fun, you know, during the school day even.

And so, yeah, I think there's lots. I think there's lots of practical ways. Yeah, like,

I guess a few of the ways that we implement play are Legos, definitely doing lots of building, building Legos.

Fame, yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

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