the call of the wild and free ainsley arment

“It’s about seeing what happens when you strip away the middleman, the curriculum, the grades, the things that come along with getting a traditional education. Arment said, laying out her pitch to skeptics. “Wild + Free is a philosophy of parenting more than home-schooling,” Ms. The previous weekend the company had hosted an immersive medieval-themed weekend for about 30 families who came with R.V.s, tents and costumes. (on land formerly owned by the psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross). Her husband and business partner, Ben Arment, 46, and their children were checking in after a nine-hour drive from the Wild + Free Farm Village, a 190-acre center in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Head Waters, Va. “For me, this is a part of holistic living,” she said, calling from her car parked in a hotel parking lot in Franklin, Tenn. She has emerged as one of the most prominent voices in a grass-roots community that, long before social distancing, decided to reject mainstream schooling and rather educate within the family. “The point is not to say the women are relegated to this role or to being at home, the point is to empower women who have made this choice.” “We recognize that many husbands play a role in schooling, but Wild + Free at its core is for moms,” she said. Arment’s community, but she said she tailors her message to “home-schooling mamas” because the vast majority of home-schooling work, in her observation, is carried out by women.

The call of the wild and free ainsley arment