CONFLICTED SURVIVAL GAME:
BEFORE THE SHTF!
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SCENARIO – The survival group you belong to has lots of children. What are three essential life skills that every child should know in today’s current society?
What are three other skills you would add to their education in a post-apocalyptic world?
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In today’s world every child should know how to read, how to do basic math in their head and how to think for themselves.
After TSHTF they should be taught situational awareness, hunting/scavenging skills and homesteading/how to adapt to changing situations skills in addition to the three skills above.
In my opinion children should learning those things now. I believe that waiting until after SHTF to begin learning necessary skills such as gardening and hunting is a mistake for kids or adults. It’s much easier to gradually improve these types of skills now than to have a crash course in them with lives depending on the results.
A survival situation is no time for experiments, it’s a time for putting to work the skills we have already become competent in.
Be well and God bless
First class, everyday : Bible. Period.
Second : Three Rs
Third : Skills, specific to each child. Age, gender, and according to their abilities and/or what they already are experienced at.
This is probably all you will have time for. Factoring in assignments and chores.
If you have people on guard duty at night, ( older kids and instructors ), they will need some sleep during the day.
I believe it will be very Important to have some free time or fun time.
Every child should learn reading, writing and math. Beyond these essentials, every child should learn how to properly clean and groom their body, including taking care of simple cuts and scrapes. Plus how to keep their living areas clean and tidy. Clean living spaces contribute enormously to bodily health and well-being. Making messes and expecting someone else to clean them up is not being self-sufficient. Additionally, teach them to take care of the tools that are extensions of their body, (such as guns, mechanics tools, cars, etc.) and to take this as seriously as cleaning one’s body. I would also emphasize every child learn how to tell time, both analog and digitally, and also how to tell time without clocks. Teaching them how to read basic weather patterns by relating it to storms, types of clouds, gardening (planting and harvesting), etc. Reinforce their essential training daily by reading the Bible, discussing books over dinner, devising fun yet practical games to teach bushcraft, cooking, laundry, map reading, housecleaning, lawn mowing, gardening. Example: If you know X ears of corn feed a family of 4 for a year, how many ears will need to be grown, given that 6% of the seed planted will not grow?
1)Finding water, and making it safe by boiling, or chemical treatment. 2) Building fire by friction & flint & steel.3) Building a debris hut or wicciup without tools. There are other skills that need to be taught, like making cordage, snares and trapping, edible plants. To obtain a better chance of survival, I would break the children into two person “battle buddies”. If , between the two children, they can do all these tasks, and teach them to always stay with their buddy, they could survive until found.
To develop an interest in learning and to discover how they as individuals learn from the knowledge base available to them, to discover how to like themselves even when their peers either do not like or show little or no interest in them, to constantly challenge their trust in all things and everybody that has not yet proven worthy of that trust and even then be prepared for disappointment and be able to recover from it.
From above: How to integrate and articulate themselves with others, How to stay strong in the face of adversity or group descent, How to be prepared and to remain resilient when confronted with deceit.
“And what is more you’ll be a man my son”.(or a lady to be reckoned with)!
From ‘If’, by Rudyard Kipling
What are three essential life skills that every child should know in today’s current society?
1. how to be quiet – the absolute need for it at times.
2. how to determine or ‘make’ clean water.
3. how to stay warm – build a fire, layer clothing, huddle together for shared heat…..
What are three other skills you would add to their education in a post-apocalyptic world?
1. how to determine foods that are good, safe to eat
2. how to act decisively in a crisis – to run, evade, prioritize, not panic or yield/give in to fear
3. how to defend themselves
#1 ….
knowing the A-typical child today – like it or not …. shut up – listen – and do absolutely everything I say – exactly the way I say ….
without a doubt one of the hardest things to get across to the sheeple – especially children – about a serious SHTF and during a SHTF >>>>> it’s a different world and it’s dangerous in more ways that can be explained …
Three skills they should have now in our “normal” society:
1. To trust their instincts and act on them.
2. How to determine if someone is trustworthy. (ie look on face, eye contact, etc)
3. The importance of learning everything that is offered to them, even if they don’t think they will ever use the information. (cuz you know what? I recently used that algebra I learned in 7th grade. She promised us we would need to know it. LOL)
Things I would add after the SHTF:
1. How to find, purify and boil water.
2. How to grow/gather food.
4.How to preserve the food they grow/gather.
If you let me add a couple more:
5. Animal husbandry for all animals in the “compound”
6.Care of all tools on the compound
7. Basic First aid
All of this is age dependent. A two year old can be taught to clean a cut, a 4 year old to clean and bandage a minor wound, a 6 year old how to inventory first aid supplies. A 3 year old can feed the pan of leftovers to the chickens, at 4 collect the eggs if there is a basket to carry them in. A 5 year old can plant seeds and harvest root crops, a 6 year old can weed those rows and pick anything in the garden.
At 10 I watched my siblings for up to 2 hours, at 12 I cooked dinner and cleaned up the kitchen afterwards, at 13 I canned food by myself and at 14 I ran the tiller to get the garden ready, That is in today’s society. I am sure I could have done many of those things at an earlier age if my parents had taught me sooner. (except watching the siblings…I think they were insane to have a 10 year old watch 3 younger children for up to 2 hours. It’s amazing we didn’t burn the house down…and that is a greater possibility if an open flame is being used to heat and cook, even if that flame is in a wood stove)
Three Basics:
1) Attitude of Self-Reliance (no entitlement mentality)
2) Strong work ethic
3) Biblical values
Added Shills (start now)
4) First Aid (including knowledge of wild medicinals)
5) Self-Defense Skills (including situational awareness & firearms training)
6) Food & Water (growing, gathering, treating, preserving, etc.)
I can tell you right now in venezuela. Your FIRST priority besides food and water and how to make a fire and keep it going which is QUITE hard.. will be READING AND WRITTING. YOU CANNOT DO ALMOST ANYTHING WITH CHILDREN THAT CANNOT PICK UP A BOOK AND UNDERSTAND WHAT THE HECK IS ABOUT. this is a HUGE problem. THERE ARE FEW BOOKS ABOUT THIS TOPIC AND WHEN YOU FIND THEM THEY ARE QUITE I MEAN QUITE EXPENSIVE.
secondly there are several organizations that you can go to (if you have money) to teach children and adults first aid and stuff like that.. so.. even when shtf you can count on those.. at least here
Secondly.. the most important thing a child needs is to learn how to SWIM. no explanation needed.
And third.. YOU NEED TO FIND PEOPLE THAT YOU ABSOLUTELY TRUST TO GET THE CHILDREN AND TAKE CARE OF THEM. AND THESE PEOPLE ARE EXTREMELY RARE TO FIND IF YOU MANAGE TO FIND ONE.
I SUGGEST THAT IN YOUR GROUP YOU INCLUDE AT A MINIMUM 2 TEACHERS. I WOULD PUT THEM ABOVE DOCTORS IN THE GROUP.
IF YOU DO NOT HAVE THEM I SWEAR I WILL BET ANYTHING YOU WANT YOU WILL REGRET IT BECAUSE YOU CANNOT DO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.. I WILL REPEAT NOTHING.. N O T H I N G IF YOU HAVE CHILDREN NEXT TO YOU ALL DAY LONG. IN FACT UNLESS YOU ARE A SAINT.. YOU WILL GO MAD. PERIOD. EVEN IF THEY ARE YOUR OWN CHILDREN. I KNOW. I am in that situation. I can tell you it drains you. You will be tired and annoyed and upset and.. if they get sick you will feel that you want to kind of die not in a literal way but you will feel more than exahusting.. especially if you have to be at 3 places at once (like me.. i have to go running to the store when milk gets there or sometimes to the store and the pharmacy for certain medicines or.. i have to be collecting water that does not come very often ALL OF THAT while i am taking care of my toddler.. i swear i am young and i can kind of handle it.. but honestly it is QUITE a lot of pressure.. specially here where it happens EVERYDAY.