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The Call of the Wild and Free
- Reclaiming the Wonder in Your Child’s Education, A New Way to Homeschool
- Narrated by: Piper Goodeve
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Relationships, Parenting & Personal Development, Relationships
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Publisher's Summary
Allow your children to experience the adventure, freedom, and wonder of childhood with this practical guide that provides all the information, inspiration, and advice you need for creating a modern, quality homeschool education.
Inspired by the spirit of Henry David Thoreau—"All good things are wild and free"—mother of five Ainsley Arment founded Wild + Free. This growing online community of mothers and families want their children to receive a quality education at home by challenging their intellectual abilities and nurturing their sense of curiosity, joy, and awe—the essence of a positive childhood.
The homeschool approach of past generations is gone—including the stigma of socially awkward kids, conservative clothes, and a classroom setting replicated in the home. The Wild + Free movement is focused on a love of nature, reading great books, pursuing interests and hobbies, making the entire world a classroom, and prolonging the wonder of childhood, an appealing philosophy that is unpacked during this audiobook.
The Call of the Wild and Free offers advice, information, and positive encouragement for parents considering homeschooling, those currently in the trenches looking for inspiration, as well as parents, educators, and caregivers who want supplementary resources to enhance their kids’ traditional educations.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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- CJ & Amy
- 2020-09-06
Lovely Book, well read and nice to listen too.
Great book to listen too, not to many list like similar home education books. Makes me want to take my kids out into nature right this moment and makes me more excited for adventure with Wild + Free mommas!
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- Alisa
- 2022-07-06
Ready to jump in!
A great encouraging read! It gave me really good ideas of where to start and now I’m ready to jump into homeschooling!
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- KD Marsh
- 2021-07-27
If you have kids - listen or read NOW!
Anyone with school aged kids needs to hear the message from this book. Society had told us and forced us to push our kids into school whether it be so both parents can work out of the house or because kids are not " normal " unless they attend a public school. I encourage you to seek out the other side. Once you understand how badly conventional public school squashes and degrades our children you'll never look back!! Our children deserve childhoods - real ones - with play - in the home/out with us as their guides and mentors. Never underestimate your job as a mother/father and teacher.
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- Laura
- 2021-07-21
Loved it!
I can see why this book and way of life is not for everyone, but it is for me. I loved it. As a newbie homeschooler this book gave me so much confidence, hope, and inspiration on how to navigate the next few years.
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- Kindle Customer
- 2021-03-12
wonderful and inspirational
loved it, very easy to get through. Each chapter was filled with I inspirational maps at how to press on and homeschool. Highly recommend for homeschoolers. A must read !!
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-11-13
Good but flawed
Lots of great messages and ideas to apply for child rearing in general. However I am disappointed at times by the logical fallacies present in a few of the arguments.
Overall still a worthwhile read, but you do need to pick the messages carefully. Correlation doesn't imply causation. Just because something is true, doesn't mean that another is false
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- Peter Drouillard
- 2020-04-24
Very enriching!
Excellent book! I love how the author explained the values of homeschooling. As a mother who does not homeschool, this book gave a clear understanding to the world of homeschooling & it breathed a passion for learning again. I would definitely recommend this book for all, those trying to understand homeschooling, those homeschooling & those beginning their journey to home school. This book was a very enriching! Good for both Christians and Atheists, some can be very passionate about their religious preference and I feel this book is neutral on the topic.
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- Sarah
- 2020-08-23
Makes you think...
There are definitely points this book makes that I think are very true. Traditional school has gone so far away from being about an individual’s journey to more of a herd mentality. Our children lose out on so much when they are taught to read and write and do adult things at an early age instead of just being a kid. Play is important. Nature is important. But this book also has a way of making homeschooling seem like this magical journey that your child will only truly be who they are meant to be if you homeschool. And if you don’t, well than you can kiss their uniqueness, drive and talents goodbye. This book has me thinking as we make our way into our first year of homeschooling.
5 people found this helpful
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- Elizabeth Jones
- 2021-02-04
This goes far beyond homeschooling...
This book helped me not only in schooling my children but in all aspects of my parenting as I grew in confidence that I am able and enough to help my children in this wonderous time of childhood. This book has also helped me in my journey as a foster parent where I have to work with a team with others with varying opinions on the best interests of vulnerable children. Often times some team members may try to hold the children to standards they can't meet due to trauma or just individual strengths and weaknesses. This book helped me become fierce in advocating for them.
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- Brandon
- 2020-03-25
INSPIRING AND EMPOWERING
For anyone who is homeschooling, wonders about homeschooling, has a friend or family member homeschooling, or just thinks it's a terrible thing to do, you MUST listen/read to this book!
I am a homeschooling mom in my 3rd year. I have three boys ages 7,6,4 and a 18 month old baby girl (at the finishing of this audible;). I am so grateful for this book stocked with inspiration and information backed with research. It is thoroughly and compassionately written. I will be referring this book for as long as I live!
Thank you Ainsley for writing! I can't even imagine how you did it! Such a labor of love.
Also, the narrator was amazing! it was like the author was reading to me!
3 people found this helpful
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- Sara F.
- 2020-03-18
Love
This book was referred to me by a fellow homeschooling mother, before we started our journey. What a blessing! It has given us a beautiful beginning and has transformed me as a mother! Thank you Ainsley for your inspiration!
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- Kelley Pryor
- 2019-09-04
Reclaiming Childhood
I absolutely love the encouragement and support that jumps off the pages in this book. I have print and audible version. These are my people and if your looking for encouragement on how to enjoy nature and add more wild to your family or on how to walk In freedom when it comes to your families education and be able to glean from methods and ideas and not be a slave to them and if you want a picture of what a slow peaceful and rich childhood can look like. Get this book. Plus it’s really pretty and has awesome photographs.
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- Nick B.
- 2020-09-19
Inspiring and educational
New to homeschooling, I find myself overwhelmed with the various methods available. The author takes time to address many educational approaches, and examine how it may work for various families. She presents a philosophy that can be applied regardless of the method (or combination of methods) a homeschooling family chooses. The ideas are not only inspiring, but liberating from the structure and pressure to achieve. (whether we put it on ourselves or by others)
I highly recommend this book as a place for all homeschool families to go for insights on how to merge learning and regular life into a single package until one is indistinguishable from the other. I recommend it for anyone who wants to help their child grow and explore as an individual, and work through the hard parts of what interests them most. The book does not shy away from the struggles of homeschooling and reality of raising children on tough days, but rather it presents realistic ideas for how to continue moving forward and not lose ourselves in the timelines of rigorous curriculum. Finally, this book touches on one of my deepest desires for my children, reclaiming childhood.
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- Still Reading
- 2020-08-21
Confirmation for what your soul already knows about homeschooling
Within the first few chapters of listening to this book I felt relief, affirmation, validation, confirmation, peace and at home with my decision to homeschool. I listened to see what resonated as my heart wanted to homeschool before I even had children and then life made me think that wasn’t possible. How would I pay the bills? Would they get social interaction? Would people judge them or us? Many questions got in the way the past 8 years. Fast forward to 2020, a global pandemic and consequential lay-off from what I envisioned was the job and company of my dreams. And with that came a pause— the gift of slowing down, time and a giant reset.
In that pause for reflection the homeschool nudge was there again —so I began to research books, stories, people’s experiences and when I heard the words of this book in particular— I cried tears of relief and knowing that this is our path. There are a few things I recall questioning in the book but mostly it was a strong yes for everything intuition, our ancestors, and knowledge of child and human development tells us.
So for me— this book was the mindset and confirmation of what I felt would work for my family. And to hear so many others sharing the same questions and philosophy was helpful at a time when I needed it most.
It will likely be something I come back to again and again for inspiration and motivation.
My only question is if I would like the hard copy as well. The audio version allowed me to listen when reading a hard copy wouldn’t have been possible.
Thanks for sharing it in both formats!
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- CK
- 2020-02-20
W&F
Needed this book!. It is encouraging and really helps the mama who hears the call but is afraid to follow. Validates feelings of wanting more than just a standard education and more importantly life style for your kids. Also Debunks and shoots down topics and concerns that family members, neighbors and maybe even spouses think is associated with the idea of homeschooling.
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- melanie garcia
- 2019-10-12
AWESOME
Awesome, inspiring book not only for homeschoolers, but just parenting in general. So many great tips and reminders for raising wild and free children!
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