Comments on: 5 Creative Ways to Teach Preparedness to Your Child http://thesurvivalmom.com/2010/02/03/5-creative-ways-to-teach-preparedness-to-your-child/ Survival is a Mom's Job!™ Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:15:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ravenwolf31 http://thesurvivalmom.com/2010/02/03/5-creative-ways-to-teach-preparedness-to-your-child/comment-page-1/#comment-5328 Ravenwolf31 Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:26:44 +0000 http://thesurvivalmom.com/?p=1850#comment-5328 I used to do that a lot when I was a kid. My favorite things to use were old folding lawn chairs, blankets and clothes pins. Take a couple of lawn chairs, unfold them, turn them on their sides and push them together to make a box like structure. There you have your walls! Then take a couple of old blankets and lay them over the top for a roof. Clothes pins are to secure the blankets in place. Just leave a space open for a "door" to crawl in and out of. Inside the house, or with little, little kids, blankets, pillows and couch cushions make good forts too. Makes for a lot of fun out of boring rainy days. Can also make it a family thing by adding in a flash light and snacks, and you have a good setup for making up stories! Winter time we made walls, caves and tunnels from the snow piles in the middle cul-de-sac made by the snowplows. I even had a small kid size tent that I could set up and take down myself. Made for a nice little place to play in. Maybe as they get older, teach them the more serious kind of shelter building skills like setting up a real size tent or making a natural emergency shelter, supervised of course. Who knows, you might have a little carpenter on your hands. I used to do that a lot when I was a kid. My favorite things to use were old folding lawn chairs, blankets and clothes pins. Take a couple of lawn chairs, unfold them, turn them on their sides and push them together to make a box like structure. There you have your walls! Then take a couple of old blankets and lay them over the top for a roof. Clothes pins are to secure the blankets in place. Just leave a space open for a "door" to crawl in and out of.

Inside the house, or with little, little kids, blankets, pillows and couch cushions make good forts too. Makes for a lot of fun out of boring rainy days. Can also make it a family thing by adding in a flash light and snacks, and you have a good setup for making up stories!

Winter time we made walls, caves and tunnels from the snow piles in the middle cul-de-sac made by the snowplows.

I even had a small kid size tent that I could set up and take down myself. Made for a nice little place to play in. Maybe as they get older, teach them the more serious kind of shelter building skills like setting up a real size tent or making a natural emergency shelter, supervised of course. Who knows, you might have a little carpenter on your hands.

]]> By: TheSurvivalMom http://thesurvivalmom.com/2010/02/03/5-creative-ways-to-teach-preparedness-to-your-child/comment-page-1/#comment-5305 TheSurvivalMom Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:11:52 +0000 http://thesurvivalmom.com/?p=1850#comment-5305 Raven, I like the way you think! Just think of all the skills and planning involved. My son makes intricate military vehicles out of empty soda cans -- same thing. Lots of thinking, planning, and learning how to make adjustments when one idea or another doesn't work out. Thanks for the suggestion! Raven, I like the way you think! Just think of all the skills and planning involved. My son makes intricate military vehicles out of empty soda cans — same thing. Lots of thinking, planning, and learning how to make adjustments when one idea or another doesn't work out. Thanks for the suggestion!

]]> By: Ravenwolf31 http://thesurvivalmom.com/2010/02/03/5-creative-ways-to-teach-preparedness-to-your-child/comment-page-1/#comment-5304 Ravenwolf31 Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:05:33 +0000 http://thesurvivalmom.com/?p=1850#comment-5304 I got another idea, get your kids into building forts! I used to make a lot of forts out of lots of different stuff when I was a kid. Got me outside and doing problem solving too. It is a great way on introducing kids on how to make an outdoor shelter. Maybe a good way to teach them how to make a good shelter. I got another idea, get your kids into building forts! I used to make a lot of forts out of lots of different stuff when I was a kid. Got me outside and doing problem solving too. It is a great way on introducing kids on how to make an outdoor shelter. Maybe a good way to teach them how to make a good shelter.

]]> By: Rich http://thesurvivalmom.com/2010/02/03/5-creative-ways-to-teach-preparedness-to-your-child/comment-page-1/#comment-4494 Rich Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:17:46 +0000 http://thesurvivalmom.com/?p=1850#comment-4494 It IS all in the way you spin it! Our DDs kids are used to pulling out the small battery tv set/ dvd and watched it by candle light. No big deal. One time we found out when we got up that the water waS OFF. We all were only 15 minutes late for a meeting with all of us showered by making use of water storage and a pump sprayer. Rich It IS all in the way you spin it! Our DDs kids are used to pulling out the small battery tv set/ dvd and watched it by candle light. No big deal. One time we found out when we got up that the water waS OFF. We all were only 15 minutes late for a meeting with all of us showered by making use of water storage and a pump sprayer.

Rich

]]> By: TheSurvivalMom http://thesurvivalmom.com/2010/02/03/5-creative-ways-to-teach-preparedness-to-your-child/comment-page-1/#comment-4461 TheSurvivalMom Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:34:59 +0000 http://thesurvivalmom.com/?p=1850#comment-4461 Three days is probably about right. I mean, I've been in the middle of an angry crowd at Disneyland when they announce that fireworks have been cancelled!! If they ALSO couldn't buy their favorite Mickey Mouse ice cream bar, all hell would break loose! Three days is probably about right. I mean, I've been in the middle of an angry crowd at Disneyland when they announce that fireworks have been cancelled!! If they ALSO couldn't buy their favorite Mickey Mouse ice cream bar, all hell would break loose!

]]> By: TheSurvivalMom http://thesurvivalmom.com/2010/02/03/5-creative-ways-to-teach-preparedness-to-your-child/comment-page-1/#comment-4460 TheSurvivalMom Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:33:41 +0000 http://thesurvivalmom.com/?p=1850#comment-4460 Just one more reason to stockpile chocolate. :O) Just one more reason to stockpile chocolate. :O)

]]> By: TheSurvivalMom http://thesurvivalmom.com/2010/02/03/5-creative-ways-to-teach-preparedness-to-your-child/comment-page-1/#comment-4458 TheSurvivalMom Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:32:38 +0000 http://thesurvivalmom.com/?p=1850#comment-4458 Laundry is very much my weakest link. Maybe that's a good reason to stock Bug Out Bags for everyone with at least two changes of clothes, just in case we have to rush out the door and no one has any clean underwear to pack! Laundry is very much my weakest link. Maybe that's a good reason to stock Bug Out Bags for everyone with at least two changes of clothes, just in case we have to rush out the door and no one has any clean underwear to pack!

]]> By: LizLong http://thesurvivalmom.com/2010/02/03/5-creative-ways-to-teach-preparedness-to-your-child/comment-page-1/#comment-4454 LizLong Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:15:37 +0000 http://thesurvivalmom.com/?p=1850#comment-4454 Dark chocolate is great. If you're tired, the caffeine will give you a virtually instant boost but it won't keep you awake in the middle of the night like soda or coffee. At least, that's my experience. Dark chocolate is great. If you're tired, the caffeine will give you a virtually instant boost but it won't keep you awake in the middle of the night like soda or coffee. At least, that's my experience.

]]> By: rightwingmom http://thesurvivalmom.com/2010/02/03/5-creative-ways-to-teach-preparedness-to-your-child/comment-page-1/#comment-4438 rightwingmom Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:52:14 +0000 http://thesurvivalmom.com/?p=1850#comment-4438 BTW - My BIGGEST fear is that "the big one" will hit the morning of laundry day. I'll be surrounded by mountains of dirty clothes! Please don't let the SHTF on Thursday!!!! ROFL! BTW – My BIGGEST fear is that "the big one" will hit the morning of laundry day. I'll be surrounded by mountains of dirty clothes! Please don't let the SHTF on Thursday!!!! ROFL!

]]> By: rightwingmom http://thesurvivalmom.com/2010/02/03/5-creative-ways-to-teach-preparedness-to-your-child/comment-page-1/#comment-4437 rightwingmom Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:46:18 +0000 http://thesurvivalmom.com/?p=1850#comment-4437 Andrea, My husband nicknamed our storage "Mom-mart." Our 9 and 11 year old boys get a kick out of the name! Lisa, Totally agree with your article. It was only a few decades ago that being prepared was considered normal. My grandmother still buys 25 lbs. of sugar every year, for canning fruits and jellies. It is only recent that we've become a fast food, instant satisfication group of selfish brats. If we can't get "IT" NOW we become impatient. Some people even become angry or panic. I personally give society 3 days, without creature comforts, before it breaks down into chaos. Especially if there's no warning, for those not paying attention. Andrea,

My husband nicknamed our storage "Mom-mart." Our 9 and 11 year old boys get a kick out of the name!

Lisa,
Totally agree with your article. It was only a few decades ago that being prepared was considered normal. My grandmother still buys 25 lbs. of sugar every year, for canning fruits and jellies. It is only recent that we've become a fast food, instant satisfication group of selfish brats. If we can't get "IT" NOW we become impatient. Some people even become angry or panic. I personally give society 3 days, without creature comforts, before it breaks down into chaos. Especially if there's no warning, for those not paying attention.

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