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Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Kids need a stable, predictable foundation to grow from. Prepper kids have parents who are extra vigilant about making sure those things will be there for them. It's like having a savings account or insurance policies.
What many now call "prepping" is how we were raised growing up in 1960s/70s Louisiana on a 5 acre farm, fishing, camping, hunting, foraging etc. The big high school bully from the city found out when he messed with me that I had done a lot of farm work hauling hay, mowing several acres, hoeing fields and chopping firewood. I was suspended for a week and went fishing at our camp but he got hurt. Ha!
The following will definitely harm kids: - malnutrition - starvation - waterborne illnesses - freezing in excess cold - roasting in excess heat/humidity - being assaulted by someone else or a group of people - severe illness or death from basic medical incidents (e.g. infected wound) Such issues are also great at preventing "the next generation". Go ask some folks in Ethiopia, Sudan, etc. what they think. Therefore, don't be stupid, assume the worst, and do as much as you can because "they" are orchestrating the permanent destruction of modern life as you know it, or worse.
My kids grew up with prepping as a part of life. Gardening, canning, freezing, drying, foraging, taking care of animals gave them lots of skills. We heated the house with wood and they all learned the basics. They all talk about how they loved the way they grew up. They all use prepping themselves now.
I’m not sure my daughter even knew that I was a Prepper, As I prepped meals I would tell stories of her grandparents. Same with sewing, with her mother. The best prepping advice I passed along in financial, “live below your means”.
Kylene: I taught my daughters to cook and can and tried to teach them to sew. One daughter does none of those things, but my youngest daughter also gardens as well as cooking and canning. I personally grew up on a farm and we always prepared for the time period until the next harvest. My granny always said "hope for the best and prepare for the worst". I have always lived by that motto. Since we live in the mid-west I grew up with many weather related disasters from tornadoes to blizzards conditions that knocked out the power grid for weeks. Emergency preparedness is so important. I don't think it harms a child to be prepared for emergencies, and prepping for such things gives them a sense of security.
This was uplifting. I needed this. My husband and I are older and I have serious health issues. But we’re trying our best to Be Prepared. We’ve had trouble, tho Church members, to find others that might be willing to help us with getting our finished basement shelved, organized, etc. We just need muscle! We’re getting the shelving, we have quite a bit of food storage, and equipment. We’re limited by living in a city with many regulations. Our lot is typical suburb house. We THOUGHT we had an electrician to give us an estimate for having a switch so that we could have that ready for a generator we have, instead of running cables thru the house from it. He never showed up or even text us or called us! And he came on good recommendation! I definitely needed the hope that this video brought, I was a tad low all week. It can seem overwhelming. Yes the scriptures say it all. Love them! I wish we had you two for a week! But we’d probably never let you go! You have so much knowledge, and tho I don’t always understand everything you are so helpful. Thank you. ♥️🇺🇸
He’s just precious!! Especially when he looks at him momma and says he loves her!! 🥺❤️🙏🏻 my children have been around my prepping since they were babies. It’s a fun, wholesome, family activity in self-sufficiency. 🙏🏻❤️
Our 2 children grew up with chores to teach them how to work. We had a peach tree and an apricot tree in our small yard. Picking the fruit wasn’t hard but when it came to canning, the battle began. I didn’t enjoy being the task master but it was important that they learned. Our adult son is on board with prepping but our married daughter is not…So her 2 children are missing out. The few times we’re together, my grandchildren enjoy checking out my raised bed garden to see what’s growing and if there’s anything they can pick to eat. They also enjoy pulling the hose out to water the plants. This gives me a little hope that they will remember these days and, hopefully, spark a desire to garden in the future.
This is a GREAT outlook and something I’ve been wondering about a lot lately!!! Thank you for giving us this insight from his point of view, at a very young age. My boys are 8 and 5. 💜
to answer the QotD: we take the kids on nightly walks, with the dog, and sneak in LOTS of survival tips. “Hey did you know you could eat this if you HAD to” kind of thing. We also found a Survival Training Camping Course in our area that was VERY kid friendly and took our oldest - he got to learn so much over the wknd (shelter, fire, water, first aid, etc). Just to name a few things we’re doing. 🥰
The BEST moment I had during Covid was when I was in a grocery store where I found a 25 pound bag of rice. Bags of rice were no where to be found. Because I was already stocked up, I could buy it to donate to the homeless shelter, which had been overlooked at this time. I felt wonderful. Only possible because I was prepared.
I am trying to teach my children and grandchildren. We grow our city garden and actually my daughter in law is now growing tomatoes it's a start she does have a little stock not much but it's a start and our grandson he loves to come to the garden and loves to shop in grandmas basement pantry he says it's creepy but he loves to shop there. Our other 2 sons live in apartments but once they get their own houses 1 of them will prep. He told me the other day mom with what is going on your pretty smart to be doing what your doing. wow that was great
Had to move to suburbia from our farm to help our children in college 😥. Hoping to all move back when they can start jobs and work remotely😊. That’s our longterm prep plan. Shalom👊🏼
Prepping and knowing others in your community of like mind, developing a community of faith and trust is valuable. I feel from the many views I have had into your methods that you, too, value these and teach not just methods but a good spirit.
My son thanked his father for teaching him the right path in life as an adult as a Truck Driver. he understood the way Mom and Dad prepared for the future. Now my youngest son, he anticipates the needs we might have if we lost power, protection or no vehicle. Life happens. We all need to know how to see the good side of Prepping. Thank you Sam, for helping other young people understand they will make it through.
Does Sam grow broccoli sprouts in his Apt? Is there a community garden near him? I was surprised how much one can grow on a 10x6 raised bed plot. Real potential to experiment with confined spaces owned by someone else. Service animal chickens ? We didn’t call it prepping… More like my Mom believed in the scouting motto “Be Prepared” and believed in keeping extra shelf stable food in the pantry (2 weeks - 2 months), showed us how to can apricots from former orchard trees in our yard using canning jars & equipment given to her as a teenager from a farming relative that showed her how as teenager. Well, I got surplus citrus from one relative, took it to the home of a niece to prepare & dehydrate lemon & oranges. Got another relative with an extra unused dehydrator to give it to said niece because she was using her oven. Stuff like that.
Great video. Thank you Kylene and Sam. It has been fun watching Sam grow up, he is a lucky man to have been raised by terrific parents. It is clear to me that Sam is one heck of a guy and I am happy for his wife to now share their lives together. May they be greatly blessed! Happy trails!
They actually live really close to you! They are the most beautifully suited couple I have ever met. Samuel and Samantha .... or as we call them Sam squared.
My Crowder Peas are blooming early this year and my okra is very close to producing. I`m eating 5 to 7 cucumbers a day and lots of blackberries and planted two types of Ground Cherries for the first time this year. I also planted 16 more fruit trees. I`m having problems with the pillbugs eating young greens but they enrich the soil so I`m letting them have them. The seeds fell everywhere when I harvested seeds this year. I`ve been adding all my grass clippings to the garden to build soil and those bugs are in there by the billions breaking it down.
@@christinereoch5270 I have basil and lemonbalm scattered about my garden. I don`t use rows and have a variety of plants growing together all year. I did make about 7 elevated areas about 30 inches across for melons, squash, tubers, onions and such with wagon loads of forest soil. Armadillos hate hot pepper so I coat the mulch to repel them and dust peas with it to keep the friendly bunny away.
You’re doing better than I. I’m also growing lemon balm, sage, thyme, marigolds, and others, for the same reason. I’m in my 4th year of gardening. Using neem oil and diatomaceous earth, food grade, in the garden. Trying to grow organically. In northern Florida.
🧄🧄🧅🧅 Garlic, leeks, onions, green onions, chives, garlic chives, marigolds, are plants that repell a host of garden pests. So plant them in diverse places, and around fruit trees, and everywhere. Chives self seed, and these beautiful plants also come back next year.
@@christinereoch5270 I`m doing my best to stay as close to organic as possible but sometimes a certain plant will need spot treatment with bug dust to stop an infestation and since I have 30 pounds of various hydro nutrients I use to grow indoors and in buckets I`ve added some in water to my best melon plants and sometimes to a fruit tree. The soil was bulldozed away long ago here so it`s an unusual situation and has been very difficult getting started building rich soil. I used organic fertilizer, lime and bone meal to prepare for growing turnips, beets, rutabagas and carrots this coming fall/winter/spring. My test plantings were a success in one area but another area is still breaking down into compost so I`m growing my pole beans and cucumbers there. Carrots and radish there made no tubers. I got a huge bag of easier to grow Paris Market Carrot seeds for my fall planting. Those have been the best for me and produce tubers fast. Danvers didn`t grow right.
Being prepared and teaching our kids to be prepared is smart, but scaring kids is another thing. Teaching basic skills, living simply, and being as self sufficient as possible is how our ancestors all lived and that was just the norm.
Great video! I have heard from some sources that they believe prepping is unhealthy for kids in that environment. I think that's a ridiculous point of view but there are people who think that. This is a great way to show them that prepping is a good way to teach responsibility and discipline. You've done well with your kids!
I was raised learning how to garden, harvest, fish, cook really good food, and fix things - but we never knew it was called prepping, it's just what you did. Also keep in mind that just because you currently live in an apartment - doesn't mean you always will, even a house on a smaller property can have a garden regardless if it's in pots, raised beds, or in the ground.
Thank you both for sharing these personal insights! Very nice format and interesting to learn about how it was to grow up in this extraordinary family. You can be proud, and the skills you learned over time and the experiences you made along the way will always go with you. I wish you all the best!
Too many view the word prepping as a crazy person project or a dirty word but it should be a word to define common sense. There are a lot of 'preppers' out there and on you tube and other social media sites that are fear tactic driven. Avoid that road. Also, not only should we be Earthly prepared but spiritually prepared as well. Take one day at a time, precept upon precept and build upon it. It is a never-ending pursuit.
I was called various names by my ridiculously ignorant relatives nearby for getting emergency solar for my window ac, freezer, fridge etc. My half sister wasn`t raised the way I was and she and my nephew are so dumb that they can`t tell that I`m intelligent. It`s bizarre. They remind me of Granny & Jethro. They`re experts at TV and gaming and making wild assumptions about everything they don`t understand. It`s rare to have people like this in Louisiana. I can`t believe it.
@@baneverything5580 teach by doing, more than by saying. Invite to do things with you, together. Doing things together provides you with teaching moments, when a question is asked, and a short appropriate answer given. Remember that most people have a short attention span. Be kind, be patient, be wise. Know when to speak, and when to hold your peace. Be humble and respectful too. Even when others are not. Eventually things might change, pray for your family. Forgive, and keep on keeping on. May God bless you and your every effort. 😊❤
@@heidimisfeldt5685 My nephew listens to nothing. He refused to eat the bell peppers I grew for him after I said they were organic and no pesticides were used. He threw them away because "bugs might be on them." There`s no hope for someone that dumb.
Well young man, you are not a tree. You can move back into the beautiful precious country side.🏞 Back to where things are alive and beautiful, unlike the concrete jungle. You have an awesome family. 😊❤
Those not able to do acreage, gardening, and the outdoor levels, there is still can do options with what you have … searching for good sources you can can, or buy bulk. Apartment living, if you have a balcony or patio you can container garden. I have had to slowly teach myself over the years and look at what my yeses are with what I have to work with 😁 And tried to teach my kids to do the same 😉 Even learn to try to identify wild edibles.
My parents went through the depression as teenagers. So I was raised as a "depression " child. For me the different ways we lives day to day was just they way it was. I never saw electricity until I was 16. Even then running water was a creek hopefully close by. My family are not preppers. But planning for tomorrow. Looking back i can say it was a good childhood. I really enjoy the modern convinces, if I have to give them up the one thing I want really like to be able to have is the modern clothes washing machine. From my experience my kids do have some degree of survivability
My kid is still elementary school aged, but he's grown up with a prepared mama. He's used to hearing the canner in the background, now that he's older he sometimes helps with filling the jars. He also knows that he can suggest things to "stock up on", he also knows that we're really unlikely to run out of any of the necessities. I hope that as he gets older he sees the value of it, and does the same when he is on his own. I know that he doesn't worry about power outages, the water being shut off due to problems, or even earthquakes. "We're prepared for that" he says. Smart kid ;) My 2 cents: I think that "Doomsday Prepper" series that was on NatGeo a decade or two ago made all the "normal day preppers" seem like that were wackadoodle crazypants preppers. Most preppers are not all about the TEOTWAWKI.
My grown children think I’m crazy. But that’s ok……I know I can help take care of them. My grandchildren think it’s a great idea. So jury is still out. As things get worse, their eyes open a little more
Prepare don't fear! We teach them to think thu things and plan for plan A B and C think through what D may be! My 2 adult children are great at this, the one graduating this month will have a rough time learning all the things, her ADHD brain just doesn't flow this way. But the skills are there, she can read and can and clean and cook, she will be just fine in her own God led way!
The only harm I can see is if it is only "doom and gloom" or "we are all gonna die" being drilled into a kid. Or abuse like someone famous got in trouble for recently. Thrown some positive in with the potential for negative events that could take place. Should be educational and with kids, thrown in some fun. Lucky to have the parents you have.Some of that work as a kid was a perfect example of life skills and teaching
❤😊 As long as there is food in the house. Kitchen cupboards well supplied with cans and dry food items. Spaghetti & sauce, canned vegetables, tuna, sardines, hot sauce, mayo, salt, pepper, sugar, pb & jam. Crackers, cookies, cereal. Even if the fridge is holding cold drinking water, and the freezer some ice.
I believe it is good for healthy children and teens to spend time out of doors learning how to camp, forage, cultivate a vegetable garden, ride horses, raise rabbits or poultry, swim, build a safe campfire, cook over a campfire, build a primitive shelter, use a map and compass, avoid dangerous wild animals, perform basic first aid, fish and perform basic self-defense martial arts. I believe these survival skills help develop self-confidence and can also be useful in adulthood when the child matures and wants to travel to primitive locations and go on adventure vacations or volunteer to help in third world countries or just deal with a local grid down. A child who only knows how to stay indoors in the air conditioning and play video games, text on a smart phone, surf the internet or take in-home music lessons or be chauffeured by a parent to organized team sports or dance instruction is missing a lot of skills-building and may fail to become a well-rounded adult who can take care of themselves during uncertain times. If parents do not know enough about outdoor activities to teach them, then scouting organizations, 4H groups and summer camping instructors can teach some of these skills. And parents can buy lessons for their children from instructors who will teach how to ride a horse or sail a small sailboat or ski or block a physical attack, etc. The duty of a parent is to help the child and teen learn how to become a law-abiding and independent adult who can take care of themselves and help others.
The teaching has changed. Have you noticed that? Even inside of us, that do these things, God is shifting our focus, and showing us a different path to take, to teach. You guys HAD to learn this, sweat drop, by sweat drop, in order to start your journey into teaching. What so many are unaware of, or even consider...If something terrible happened. Throw a dart at a list- especially in this time. If THIS was to only occur in the boundaries of my town, my street...How would I and my family exist, during and after? I'm in a hurricane group, and we live learning, preparing, and teaching. People almost always focus on their town, their street, and make sometimes, life giving or life taking decisions based on that small picture, without considering the picture as a whole. We don't prepare for " the infamous Hollywood, apocalypse" were the good guy finally gets his family back, after he saves the world. We live in reality. We live in the, mom had a tree fall on her. Dad fell off the ladder and got seriously injured....On the flip side, we live in, I am SO thankful to Adonai that HE had me pick up 2 mega packs of TP, 2 weeks before the sickness hit the fan. We didn't run out, and we actually got to share. Yeah, it's TP..But my Aunts who were in their 80s were able to take a deep breath because they didn't have to go fight the people, from other towns, waiting for the doors to open, and swarm the aisles for the last pack of TP... Lord there is no one to put me in the water, when it stirs! BE the one that says, you don't need to go into the water...I'm here! Be the light of the Lord, THAT day!
I absolutely LOVE your comment! Amen! That pretty much sums up my thoughts on prepping. It is about taking reasonable steps, loving our neighbors, and being an instrument in God's hands! Thank you for being part of the solution!
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Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Kids need a stable, predictable foundation to grow from. Prepper kids have parents who are extra vigilant about making sure those things will be there for them. It's like having a savings account or insurance policies.
Having skills is a necessity in facing reality. Becoming empowered is fine with love!
I would say your kids are very lucky to be raised by amazing parents who taught them skills and values!
Aw ... thanks!
What many now call "prepping" is how we were raised growing up in 1960s/70s Louisiana on a 5 acre farm, fishing, camping, hunting, foraging etc. The big high school bully from the city found out when he messed with me that I had done a lot of farm work hauling hay, mowing several acres, hoeing fields and chopping firewood. I was suspended for a week and went fishing at our camp but he got hurt. Ha!
The following will definitely harm kids:
- malnutrition
- starvation
- waterborne illnesses
- freezing in excess cold
- roasting in excess heat/humidity
- being assaulted by someone else or a group of people
- severe illness or death from basic medical incidents (e.g. infected wound)
Such issues are also great at preventing "the next generation". Go ask some folks in Ethiopia, Sudan, etc. what they think. Therefore, don't be stupid, assume the worst, and do as much as you can because "they" are orchestrating the permanent destruction of modern life as you know it, or worse.
My kids grew up with prepping as a part of life. Gardening, canning, freezing, drying, foraging, taking care of animals gave them lots of skills. We heated the house with wood and they all learned the basics. They all talk about how they loved the way they grew up. They all use prepping themselves now.
I’m not sure my daughter even knew that I was a Prepper, As I prepped meals I would tell stories of her grandparents. Same with sewing, with her mother. The best prepping advice I passed along in financial, “live below your means”.
Thanks for sharing!
Right! My kids were surprised when they figured out we were preppers. They just knew this as life!
Kylene: I taught my daughters to cook and can and tried to teach them to sew. One daughter does none of those things, but my youngest daughter also gardens as well as cooking and canning. I personally grew up on a farm and we always prepared for the time period until the next harvest. My granny always said "hope for the best and prepare for the worst". I have always lived by that motto. Since we live in the mid-west I grew up with many weather related disasters from tornadoes to blizzards conditions that knocked out the power grid for weeks. Emergency preparedness is so important. I don't think it harms a child to be prepared for emergencies, and prepping for such things gives them a sense of security.
This was uplifting. I needed this. My husband and I are older and I have serious health issues. But we’re trying our best to Be Prepared. We’ve had trouble, tho Church members, to find others that might be willing to help us with getting our finished basement shelved, organized, etc. We just need muscle! We’re getting the shelving, we have quite a bit of food storage, and equipment. We’re limited by living in a city with many regulations. Our lot is typical suburb house. We THOUGHT we had an electrician to give us an estimate for having a switch so that we could have that ready for a generator we have, instead of running cables thru the house from it. He never showed up or even text us or called us! And he came on good recommendation! I definitely needed the hope that this video brought, I was a tad low all week. It can seem overwhelming. Yes the scriptures say it all. Love them! I wish we had you two for a week! But we’d probably never let you go! You have so much knowledge, and tho I don’t always understand everything you are so helpful. Thank you. ♥️🇺🇸
Aww ... you are so sweet! Keep the faith! You got this!
He’s just precious!! Especially when he looks at him momma and says he loves her!! 🥺❤️🙏🏻 my children have been around my prepping since they were babies. It’s a fun, wholesome, family activity in self-sufficiency. 🙏🏻❤️
Our 2 children grew up with chores to teach them how to work. We had a peach tree and an apricot tree in our small yard. Picking the fruit wasn’t hard but when it came to canning, the battle began. I didn’t enjoy being the task master but it was important that they learned. Our adult son is on board with prepping but our married daughter is not…So her 2 children are missing out.
The few times we’re together, my grandchildren enjoy checking out my raised bed garden to see what’s growing and if there’s anything they can pick to eat. They also enjoy pulling the hose out to water the plants. This gives me a little hope that they will remember these days and, hopefully, spark a desire to garden in the future.
This is a GREAT outlook and something I’ve been wondering about a lot lately!!! Thank you for giving us this insight from his point of view, at a very young age. My boys are 8 and 5. 💜
to answer the QotD: we take the kids on nightly walks, with the dog, and sneak in LOTS of survival tips. “Hey did you know you could eat this if you HAD to” kind of thing. We also found a Survival Training Camping Course in our area that was VERY kid friendly and took our oldest - he got to learn so much over the wknd (shelter, fire, water, first aid, etc). Just to name a few things we’re doing. 🥰
Remember the MOST IMPORTANT PART OF PREPPING IS OUR SPIRITUAL PREPAREDNESS FOR OUR LORD JESUS SOON RETURN!
Amen!
The BEST moment I had during Covid was when I was in a grocery store where I found a 25 pound bag of rice. Bags of rice were no where to be found. Because I was already stocked up, I could buy it to donate to the homeless shelter, which had been overlooked at this time. I felt wonderful. Only possible because I was prepared.
YOU are part of the solution! Awesome!
I am trying to teach my children and grandchildren. We grow our city garden and actually my daughter in law is now growing tomatoes it's a start she does have a little stock not much but it's a start and our grandson he loves to come to the garden and loves to shop in grandmas basement pantry he says it's creepy but he loves to shop there. Our other 2 sons live in apartments but once they get their own houses 1 of them will prep. He told me the other day mom with what is going on your pretty smart to be doing what your doing. wow that was great
Had to move to suburbia from our farm to help our children in college 😥. Hoping to all move back when they can start jobs and work remotely😊. That’s our longterm prep plan. Shalom👊🏼
Prepping and knowing others in your community of like mind, developing a community of faith and trust is valuable. I feel from the many views I have had into your methods that you, too, value these and teach not just methods but a good spirit.
My son thanked his father for teaching him the right path in life as an adult as a Truck Driver. he understood the way Mom and Dad prepared for the future. Now my youngest son, he anticipates the needs we might have if we lost power, protection or no vehicle. Life happens. We all need to know how to see the good side of Prepping. Thank you Sam, for helping other young people understand they will make it through.
Does Sam grow broccoli sprouts in his Apt? Is there a community garden near him? I was surprised how much one can grow on a 10x6 raised bed plot. Real potential to experiment with confined spaces owned by someone else. Service animal chickens ?
We didn’t call it prepping… More like my Mom believed in the scouting motto “Be Prepared” and believed in keeping extra shelf stable food in the pantry (2 weeks - 2 months), showed us how to can apricots from former orchard trees in our yard using canning jars & equipment given to her as a teenager from a farming relative that showed her how as teenager.
Well, I got surplus citrus from one relative, took it to the home of a niece to prepare & dehydrate lemon & oranges. Got another relative with an extra unused dehydrator to give it to said niece because she was using her oven. Stuff like that.
This was so encouraging! Love to see how this has helped your kids to prepare for life in many ways.
Great video. Thank you Kylene and Sam. It has been fun watching Sam grow up, he is a lucky man to have been raised by terrific parents. It is clear to me that Sam is one heck of a guy and I am happy for his wife to now share their lives together. May they be greatly blessed! Happy trails!
They actually live really close to you! They are the most beautifully suited couple I have ever met. Samuel and Samantha .... or as we call them Sam squared.
Very good topic. Thank you
You guys are amazing. So glad you shared this. I am grateful that you have the time to share.
Life is an adventure!
Love to see Sam again!!
My Crowder Peas are blooming early this year and my okra is very close to producing. I`m eating 5 to 7 cucumbers a day and lots of blackberries and planted two types of Ground Cherries for the first time this year. I also planted 16 more fruit trees. I`m having problems with the pillbugs eating young greens but they enrich the soil so I`m letting them have them. The seeds fell everywhere when I harvested seeds this year. I`ve been adding all my grass clippings to the garden to build soil and those bugs are in there by the billions breaking it down.
I’m battling the bugs too. Did a lot of companion planting with herbs too. Learning more all the time.
@@christinereoch5270 I have basil and lemonbalm scattered about my garden. I don`t use rows and have a variety of plants growing together all year. I did make about 7 elevated areas about 30 inches across for melons, squash, tubers, onions and such with wagon loads of forest soil. Armadillos hate hot pepper so I coat the mulch to repel them and dust peas with it to keep the friendly bunny away.
You’re doing better than I. I’m also growing lemon balm, sage, thyme, marigolds, and others, for the same reason. I’m in my 4th year of gardening. Using neem oil and diatomaceous earth, food grade, in the garden. Trying to grow organically. In northern Florida.
🧄🧄🧅🧅 Garlic, leeks, onions, green onions, chives, garlic chives, marigolds, are plants that repell a host of garden pests. So plant them in diverse places, and around fruit trees, and everywhere. Chives self seed, and these beautiful plants also come back next year.
@@christinereoch5270 I`m doing my best to stay as close to organic as possible but sometimes a certain plant will need spot treatment with bug dust to stop an infestation and since I have 30 pounds of various hydro nutrients I use to grow indoors and in buckets I`ve added some in water to my best melon plants and sometimes to a fruit tree. The soil was bulldozed away long ago here so it`s an unusual situation and has been very difficult getting started building rich soil.
I used organic fertilizer, lime and bone meal to prepare for growing turnips, beets, rutabagas and carrots this coming fall/winter/spring. My test plantings were a success in one area but another area is still breaking down into compost so I`m growing my pole beans and cucumbers there. Carrots and radish there made no tubers. I got a huge bag of easier to grow Paris Market Carrot seeds for my fall planting. Those have been the best for me and produce tubers fast. Danvers didn`t grow right.
Being prepared and teaching our kids to be prepared is smart, but scaring kids is another thing. Teaching basic skills, living simply, and being as self sufficient as possible is how our ancestors all lived and that was just the norm.
Prepping is kinda fun. Remember, the Girl Scout motto is, Be Prepared.
Great video! I have heard from some sources that they believe prepping is unhealthy for kids in that environment. I think that's a ridiculous point of view but there are people who think that. This is a great way to show them that prepping is a good way to teach responsibility and discipline. You've done well with your kids!
Thanks! My kids are amazing! We have learned so much from them. Together we got this!
What a great vid 👍✌️
Glad you enjoyed it
I was raised learning how to garden, harvest, fish, cook really good food, and fix things - but we never knew it was called prepping, it's just what you did. Also keep in mind that just because you currently live in an apartment - doesn't mean you always will, even a house on a smaller property can have a garden regardless if it's in pots, raised beds, or in the ground.
Thank you for sharing great video and a good topic that is a topic that the prepper community are talking about or more like forgot to talk about.
Thank you both for sharing these personal insights! Very nice format and interesting to learn about how it was to grow up in this extraordinary family. You can be proud, and the skills you learned over time and the experiences you made along the way will always go with you. I wish you all the best!
Thank you for your kind words! We also wish you the very best!
Thank you for this content!
Our pleasure!
Too many view the word prepping as a crazy person project or a dirty word but it should be a word to define common sense. There are a lot of 'preppers' out there and on you tube and other social media sites that are fear tactic driven. Avoid that road. Also, not only should we be Earthly prepared but spiritually prepared as well. Take one day at a time, precept upon precept and build upon it. It is a never-ending pursuit.
I was called various names by my ridiculously ignorant relatives nearby for getting emergency solar for my window ac, freezer, fridge etc. My half sister wasn`t raised the way I was and she and my nephew are so dumb that they can`t tell that I`m intelligent. It`s bizarre. They remind me of Granny & Jethro. They`re experts at TV and gaming and making wild assumptions about everything they don`t understand. It`s rare to have people like this in Louisiana. I can`t believe it.
@@baneverything5580 teach by doing, more than by saying. Invite to do things with you, together. Doing things together provides you with teaching moments, when a question is asked, and a short appropriate answer given. Remember that most people have a short attention span. Be kind, be patient, be wise. Know when to speak, and when to hold your peace. Be humble and respectful too. Even when others are not. Eventually things might change, pray for your family. Forgive, and keep on keeping on. May God bless you and your every effort. 😊❤
@@heidimisfeldt5685 My nephew listens to nothing. He refused to eat the bell peppers I grew for him after I said they were organic and no pesticides were used. He threw them away because "bugs might be on them." There`s no hope for someone that dumb.
Thanks for your perspective on prepping Sam!
Well young man, you are not a tree. You can move back into the beautiful precious country side.🏞
Back to where things are alive and beautiful, unlike the concrete jungle. You have an awesome family. 😊❤
Having my child in the scouts
Wow Sam is all grown up and married now! He is such a thoughtful and intelligent young man. You guys must be so proud! 💝
I am incredibly proud of him. He is such a good husband and son!
Those not able to do acreage, gardening, and the outdoor levels, there is still can do options with what you have … searching for good sources you can can, or buy bulk. Apartment living, if you have a balcony or patio you can container garden. I have had to slowly teach myself over the years and look at what my yeses are with what I have to work with 😁 And tried to teach my kids to do the same 😉
Even learn to try to identify wild edibles.
My parents went through the depression as teenagers. So I was raised as a "depression " child. For me the different ways we lives day to day was just they way it was. I never saw electricity until I was 16. Even then running water was a creek hopefully close by. My family are not preppers. But planning for tomorrow. Looking back i can say it was a good childhood.
I really enjoy the modern convinces, if I have to give them up the one thing I want really like to be able to have is the modern clothes washing machine.
From my experience my kids do have some degree of survivability
I love his shirt
My kid is still elementary school aged, but he's grown up with a prepared mama. He's used to hearing the canner in the background, now that he's older he sometimes helps with filling the jars. He also knows that he can suggest things to "stock up on", he also knows that we're really unlikely to run out of any of the necessities. I hope that as he gets older he sees the value of it, and does the same when he is on his own.
I know that he doesn't worry about power outages, the water being shut off due to problems, or even earthquakes. "We're prepared for that" he says. Smart kid ;)
My 2 cents: I think that "Doomsday Prepper" series that was on NatGeo a decade or two ago made all the "normal day preppers" seem like that were wackadoodle crazypants preppers. Most preppers are not all about the TEOTWAWKI.
My grown children think I’m crazy. But that’s ok……I know I can help take care of them. My grandchildren think it’s a great idea. So jury is still out. As things get worse, their eyes open a little more
As an old fart I believe that children are very resiliant. My concern is the addiction that children and adults have to their phones.
Sam's got some arms! 💪👍
He is amazingly strong. Check out his channel www.youtube.com/@sam_pwrlfts
Prepare don't fear! We teach them to think thu things and plan for plan A B and C think through what D may be! My 2 adult children are great at this, the one graduating this month will have a rough time learning all the things, her ADHD brain just doesn't flow this way. But the skills are there, she can read and can and clean and cook, she will be just fine in her own God led way!
The only harm I can see is if it is only "doom and gloom" or "we are all gonna die" being drilled into a kid. Or abuse like someone famous got in trouble for recently. Thrown some positive in with the potential for negative events that could take place. Should be educational and with kids, thrown in some fun. Lucky to have the parents you have.Some of that work as a kid was a perfect example of life skills and teaching
Huh? Making sure the family has a stockpile of food, a way to heat, cool and cook, a viable water source, medicine…yep that’s just pure abuse.
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My mother-in-law thinks it’s damaging. 😂 But she puts me under a microscope looking for faults.
I'm sorry! That is frustrating.
Does 0:49 having an empty refrigerator harm children? Is the sky blue? The Bible tells us to be like the ant 🐜 not the grasshopper 🦗.
❤😊 As long as there is food in the house. Kitchen cupboards well supplied with cans and dry food items. Spaghetti & sauce, canned vegetables, tuna, sardines, hot sauce, mayo, salt, pepper, sugar, pb & jam. Crackers, cookies, cereal. Even if the fridge is holding cold drinking water, and the freezer some ice.
I believe it is good for healthy children and teens to spend time out of doors learning how to camp, forage, cultivate a vegetable garden, ride horses, raise rabbits or poultry, swim, build a safe campfire, cook over a campfire, build a primitive shelter, use a map and compass, avoid dangerous wild animals, perform basic first aid, fish and perform basic self-defense martial arts. I believe these survival skills help develop self-confidence and can also be useful in adulthood when the child matures and wants to travel to primitive locations and go on adventure vacations or volunteer to help in third world countries or just deal with a local grid down.
A child who only knows how to stay indoors in the air conditioning and play video games, text on a smart phone, surf the internet or take in-home music lessons or be chauffeured by a parent to organized team sports or dance instruction is missing a lot of skills-building and may fail to become a well-rounded adult who can take care of themselves during uncertain times. If parents do not know enough about outdoor activities to teach them, then scouting organizations, 4H groups and summer camping instructors can teach some of these skills. And parents can buy lessons for their children from instructors who will teach how to ride a horse or sail a small sailboat or ski or block a physical attack, etc. The duty of a parent is to help the child and teen learn how to become a law-abiding and independent adult who can take care of themselves and help others.
Raised him well, but forgot to turn on his microphone.
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I had no trouble at all hearing him. 😊❤
The teaching has changed. Have you noticed that? Even inside of us, that do these things, God is shifting our focus, and showing us a different path to take, to teach. You guys HAD to learn this, sweat drop, by sweat drop, in order to start your journey into teaching.
What so many are unaware of, or even consider...If something terrible happened. Throw a dart at a list- especially in this time. If THIS was to only occur in the boundaries of my town, my street...How would I and my family exist, during and after?
I'm in a hurricane group, and we live learning, preparing, and teaching. People almost always focus on their town, their street, and make sometimes, life giving or life taking decisions based on that small picture, without considering the picture as a whole.
We don't prepare for " the infamous Hollywood, apocalypse" were the good guy finally gets his family back, after he saves the world. We live in reality.
We live in the, mom had a tree fall on her. Dad fell off the ladder and got seriously injured....On the flip side, we live in, I am SO thankful to Adonai that HE had me pick up 2 mega packs of TP, 2 weeks before the sickness hit the fan.
We didn't run out, and we actually got to share. Yeah, it's TP..But my Aunts who were in their 80s were able to take a deep breath because they didn't have to go fight the people, from other towns, waiting for the doors to open, and swarm the aisles for the last pack of TP...
Lord there is no one to put me in the water, when it stirs! BE the one that says, you don't need to go into the water...I'm here! Be the light of the Lord, THAT day!
I absolutely LOVE your comment! Amen! That pretty much sums up my thoughts on prepping. It is about taking reasonable steps, loving our neighbors, and being an instrument in God's hands! Thank you for being part of the solution!
The overacted emotions make it way too American for me - not in a good way. It's simply distracting. Content is fine though.
You guys have done what we all should do. God bless you all from us in the UK 🙏🏻
I second that from West Yorkshire ❤️🖖