Welcome to the Wild and Free Podcast, episode five.

I'm Ainsley Arment, and I'm here with Tina Ingold.

Today we're going to hear an amazing talk by Jody Mockaby from our Wild and Free Conference in Texas last fall.

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

Let's get started.

Music coffee and join us on the front porch. Let's get started. But something that we do love to do is take trips, just even overnights with our kids,

someplace that is kind of educational,

but they don't know it. And we are never going to tell them. Like we like to stay at farms,

organic farms, and they find like an Airbnb that's on an organic farm and then learn from them. And

they get to feed the animals and it's really fun. but we're not, we don't tell our kids,

hey guys, let's go. We're going to go have an educational field trip this week instead of doing

our homeschool. We don't ever say that. We just do it. But it counts for me as homeschool.

I mean, it's just, this is real life learning. This is fun and playful, but I don't need to tell them every time I'm hoping that they're learning through play.

Like, I don't pull out the games and say, okay, now it's time for the playful learning.

We just pull them out and they think it's fun and we're playing, but I'm totally thinking that

it counts as learning because they're counting cards, they're doing math, they're doing

analytical thinking and all

sorts of things. So we're just playing around with manipulatives and things like that. I don't

ever say, okay, this is our next part of school. You know, I try to just lay everything out.

Just allow everything to be really integrated and not, yeah, yeah. It's like how to, like, I think of

playful learning is when do my kids not know that they're

learning?

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