Welcome to the Wild and Free Podcast, Episode 7.

I'm Ainsley Arment, here with Tina Ingold, and today we're talking more about nature.

Today, you're in for a special treat.

Our dear friend Leah Bowden is joining us all the way from Warwickshire, England.

That's coming up in just a little bit.

So grab a cup of coffee and join us on the front porch. Let's get

started.

Thank you. Well, I mean, it's been proven by studies that children who play regularly outdoors, they show the heightened motor skills and engage in imaginative and creative play and which fosters language.

You know, all that's been proven. But it is really cool that, you know, when you're trying to figure those kinds of things out, bird sounds or a different plant or whatever, your kids actually are using problem solving skills and teamwork efforts. And, you know, to watch them do that is really awesome. It really is. I know. There's this really fun game called Bird Bingo. It's really

beautiful. You've got to get it. Everyone's got to get Bird Bingo. They have Bug Bingo.

Yeah, my kids would be into the bug bingo more. But they all have really funny names you know there's the something booby and you know they're all like snickering as we play it they just can't like yes oh it's so

hilarious we're still reading through the chronicles of narnia every time i say poop deck the

kids laugh for so long and i'm like guys do we have to laugh every time I say poop debt? Kids, I know.

Home school life. I know. That's the homeschool win right there.

I have so many friends and even moms will write into wild and free and they'll say,

I wish I could have this life, but we don't live on a farm or we don't live on a mountain top with a cabin overlooking the Alps or whatever. And I think it's just so important to remember that kids don't need those big,

grandiose experiences to have a childhood in nature.

That's exactly right.

Even if you don't even have a real backyard, if you can walk to a park,

you can plant a garden or you have a little patio.

You know, there's so much.

I feel like my kids come to life when they feel like

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