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Name: The Call of the Wild and Free
Rating: 4.5 (39 reviews)
Author: Ainsley Arment

Ainsley Arment

Reclaiming Wonder in Your Child's Education

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What’s in it for me? Be inspired to become the homeschool superstar you were born to be.

Any parent who’s considered homeschooling their children has had to raise an eyebrow once or twice. Homeschooling certainly isn’t for everybody – it does require a certain change in lifestyle. Many parents interpret homeschooling as meaning extra responsibility and a loss of autonomy. They say things like “it must be exhausting,” or “when would I find time for myself?” or “ I’m not qualified to teach everything.”

These are legitimate concerns. But if this is what’s stopping you from homeschooling, then you ought to find these blinks reassuring. They’ll tell you that if you’re exhausted, you’re probably not giving your child enough freedom. They’ll tell you that time spent with your children is time spent for yourself. And, they’ll tell you that the fact you’re not qualified to teach everything is an advantage, not an impediment.

Along the way, you’ll also be inspired to reclaim your own childlike qualities of curiosity and wonder, become more playful and creative, and unleash your wild side.

In these blinks, you’ll learn:

how traditional schools prepare our children for office life;
how one blind and deaf lady made it all the way through college; and
why mothers like to go for the most painful antiseptic.

The author decided on homeschooling to give her son his childhood back.

On his first day of school, the author packed her son Wyatt onto the school bus and watched as it wound its way down the street. Then, she did what any mother would do – she jumped in her car and followed it.

She followed it all the way to school, keeping an eye on Wyatt’s bobbing head through the glass. She watched as her boy walked into the building and out of sight. And then, sitting alone in the car, she began to weep for the conclusion of her son’s swift childhood.

At this point, in the author's mind, school was certainly not a matter to be questioned. Children have to go to school. It’s part and parcel of growing up. Everybody does it. And so the author put up with it. She put up with the distance that was, slowly but surely, burgeoning between them.

She would put up with anything if it was for the good of her son. But, her son was changing. He started to care about what his peers thought about him. He was losing his childish curiosity and playing less. The author would say that it was as if the light in his eyes had been snuffed out.

And she missed her friend.

It was another homeschooling mother who first put the idea onto the author’s radar. Never before had she taken the concept seriously.

After all, she didn’t want her child to grow up weird. She didn’t want to scuttle his future.

But, faced with the prospect of losing the boy she knew and cherished, the idea of homeschooling hit her like a gust of hope.

So it came to pass that, one afternoon, they sat down together over coffee and her friend ran her through the basics. It turns out that there are many schools of homeschooling – the Charlotte Mason and Montessori methods are popular ones, and the Regio Emilia approach is also catching on. She was introduced to a lot of names and so many theories about what education should be that she was truly awoken from a stupor of presumption.

Only weeks later, she settled on a home curriculum that she liked and, with great trepidation, pulled her son out of the first grade.

Ultimately, her decision to homeschool Wyatt was born from the responsibility she felt to give her son his childhood back.

Together, they took a plunge that would change their lives, for the better, forever.

Homeschooling is on the rise.

What do you think of when you hear homeschool family?

Maybe you think of those ultra-conservative religious communities that choose to isolate their children from what they see as modern society’s degenerate morals.

The traditional model of education isn’t working.

Our school system doesn’t treat children as what they are – children.

Anyone who has a child knows that they’re naturally prone to moving around and exploring, yet schools insist on bending their bodies to the shape of a chair as if already preparing them for office life.

The homeschool model promotes a concept of education focused on promoting a child's unique abilities and passions.

Homeschooling is unconventional, to be sure.

But, didn’t anyone ever tell you? Unconventional is good.

Homeschooling is not just about replicating the classroom setting.

Homeschooling is something of a misnomer because homeschool education is neither limited to the home nor limited to the school model.

In fact, a homeschool would be severely limiting itself if it attempted to replicate the school classroom in the home. To be honest, a homeschool wouldn’t compete if it tried to out-work the local public school at its own game.

Homeschooling restores the experience of motherhood and enriches family life.

Today, it’s getting harder and harder for families to find time to spend together. With children at school and with the increasing need for both parents to be breadwinners, busy schedules are encroaching on everybody’s free time. One study estimated that the average US family spends only 36 minutes together each day.

For some, homeschooling affords an opportunity to reinvigorate the family experience. It represents a return to a time when child-parent mentoring was the norm, and families were more tightly knit.

Children benefit tremendously from a close relationship with nature.

While there’s no one formula for a successful homeschool experience, we will look at the five core principles identified by the Wild + Free community that are designed to enrich any education. The first principle is the school of nature, which is about helping children re-establish a close relationship with nature.

It’s no secret that we, as a society, are losing touch with nature more and more. And our children have not been immune to these changes. We’ve systematically traded natural environments for artificial ones across the board: We’ve switched grass for artificial turf, exchanged nature parks for theme parks, and abandoned outdoor games in favor of video games.

Narrative is a powerful vehicle for learning.

Storytelling is side-lined in the traditional school system. It’s treated as less important than “harder” subjects like math and science. And, it’s generally taught as something that’s only done “for fun.”

But this attitude presents storytelling as separate from other domains of learning. On the contrary, storytelling is a powerful learning device that can enrich the study of any subject. That’s why the second principle of the Wild + Free philosophy is to utilize the power of story.

Play and learning are not antagonists.

The attitude that the school system has toward play is that it’s tolerated so long as children get their work done. They even designate chunks of time to "playtime." But, in doing this, schools teach our children that play is something extra to learning, and learning only happens when we’re not having fun.

For some reason, we’ve got it into our heads that real education must be difficult, boring, and painful.

Curiosity and wonder are the foundation of all creativity.

Adults don’t respect children enough. Indeed, we adults often treat children as ignorant, and their interests as frivolous. We act as though we have nothing to learn from them, and they have everything to learn from us.

But in many respects, children are more diligent and more scientific than adults are. Children are far more inclined to inspect, examine, question, and experiment than adults. Really, it’s we who need to learn from them.

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Worum geht es in The Call of the Wild and Free?

The Call of the Wild and Free (2019) is a practical guide for homeschooling children, brimming with advice and inspiration for parents thinking about an alternative education for their children. In the process, it dispels a few old stereotypes about homeschooling and makes a case for its legitimacy as a model of education today. Frequently going beyond homeschooling to reflect upon the concept of education generally, the author presents both a powerful critique of the school system and a call to arms to educate our children differently.

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A magical childhood is about freedom. Freedom to explore, discover and play.

—Ainsley Arment

Wer The Call of the Wild and Free lesen sollte

Parents thinking about an alternative education for their children
Educators looking for ideas to complement a traditional education
Anyone who wants to rekindle their own childhood curiosity and adventurousness

Über den Autor

Ainsley Arment is a homeschool mother, founder of the online homeschooling community Wild + Free, and a leader in the burgeoning homeschool movement. She has nine years of experience homeschooling her five children.

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