Welcome to the Wild and Free Podcast, episode 85.

I'm Ainsley Arment, and this week we're talking with Torrey Oglesby about caring for yourself as a homeschooling mama.

So you can have the heart, the energy, and the passion to pour into your kids.

Giving yourself permission to take the pressure off to just sit on the couch and cuddle with your babies, even though the

world is telling you, go, go, go, go, go. Take the pressure off, mamas. Take it off. You will be happier

and your household will be happier. Plus, we'll share about our new content bundle for the month

of February called Slow that's coming out this week.

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

When our children are young, they speak as children, understand as children, and think as children.

And when they become adults, they're expected to put away childish things.

The trouble is, many children feel pressured to put away childish things long before its time,

all in the name of maturity.

I believe, and many experts would agree, that having a whole and healthy childhood is the key

to having a whole and healthy adulthood.

This means that the best way for a child to prepare to be five

is to be four. And the best way for a child to prepare to be eight is to be given the freedom

to be seven, and so on and so on. Sully focusing on preparing for adulthood, not only hinders their futures,

but also strips them of the freedom and the joy of childhood. The path to preserving childhood

is a harrowing one. There are distractions at every turn, but there is no higher calling for a wild and free mama. We have the

great honor of restoring childhood for our children. This means letting our kids become bored and being

okay with it. It's refusing to fall into the comparison trap. It's facing our fears and failures and doing something about it.

It's trusting the innate desire to learn that's found in every child. Let's restore our homes as

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