Welcome to the Wild and Free podcast, Episode 66.

I'm Ainsley Arment, and this week we're talking with homeschool pioneer Sally Clarkson,

all about her new book, A Waking Wonder.

If you can understand that children are these amazing human beings made with incredible capacity to know, to grow, to question.

If you can see them for the miracle that they are, and then if you can see them as individuals,

individual personality, drives, and then if you can say, I'm going to come alongside,

and I'm going to walk beside them, and we are going to learn together. When you develop a wild and free, or I'm going to walk beside them and we are going to learn together. When you develop

a wild and free, or I'm going to say a wholehearted vision for what it looks like to really

be a mentor to a child in the best sense, then I think that can help you through the fears,

the hard days, all the other things.

We'll also share some exciting things happening this fall in the wild and free community.

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

Let's get started.

Thank you. If getting outside is complicated, it's because we make it so. The solution is not to think about it.

It's to go.

First thing, before breakfast, before everyone's dressed, before you change your mind?

Long ago when I was homeschooling three little boys, I dreamed of mornings filled with poetry readings,

candlelight, conversations, and creative writing.

But a new babe on my hip made it impossible to sit.

We couldn't make it through a book without someone breaking down.

And we couldn't construct a handcraft when my hands were too occupied to help.

So we did the only thing we could.

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