Episode-2261- Getting Kids Excited About Prepping and Learning
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Over and over we hear people beating up on the millennial generation, and I am sure it will soon be Generation Z’s time to be beaten up on soon. I get it, it does bother me when a 19 year old kid doesn’t even know what a ratchet is for instance. However, how’d they get this way?
We did it! The last of the Baby Boomers (aka Tweeners) and GenX we did it by not teaching them about, well almost everything. We pretty much outsourced all learning to the school system. I mean we came from it, so we know it isn’t great but as many of us were “latch key kids” that raised ourselves we figured it was good enough for us so……
Problem is folks, things like home economics, shop class, etc have largely been removed from our schools. As have the higher “life meaning” components to things like history and economics. In other words as lacking as our education was, this young people today have it worse. They may learn to pass tests but they don’t get taught how to do anything.
So what is the solution, go join the PTA? Run for the school board? How about something simpler, be a parent that teachers, trains and spends time with your kids doing cool stuff. Today I try to give you some ideas for that, that will help kids learn. The good news is kids actually love learning.
Join Me Today to Discuss…
- Why so many kids weak and uninformed
- First it is our fault
- They don’t know pain we have bubble wrapped them
- They don’t know failure we have insulated them from it
- They don’t know challenge, we have robbed them of it
- They have unlimited access to “entertainment”
- We are in a transitional stage of humanity they are caught in it
- Some fun stuff to do with kids that teaches them about life and nature
- Make butter – this is so simple
- Cook a simple soup with them
- Teach them to build a fire
- Make an herbal salve
- Take short hikes in the woods/nature trails, etc
- Have occasional “lights out” nights
- Watch movies and TV shows from your childhood
- Involve them in a car repair project
- Put them on an incentive based allowance program
- Help them create a budget
- Go to botanical gardens, zoos, aquariums, etc.
- Grow microgreens or do sprouts
- Build a bug out bag with them and discuss it
- Involve them in basic pantry planning
- Do “career research” with a work sheet
- Teach them basic excel – learn yourself if you don’t have the skill
- Make your own “MREs”
- Learn to shoot something, bow/bb gun/slingshot/airsoft/etc.
- What can you think of?
- Final thoughts
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I never even realized how weak and uninformed other millennials were until I moved to the city and started making friends and dating in a big city in a new state.
The tiny rural town I grew up in was like a last holdover of your childhood by the sounds of it, we had a great woodshop and metal working classes. I remember taking welding specifically to get better at it than I was from my dad and brother trying to teach me when I was about 13, specifically because it would help me when the shit hits the fan.
I used to hate that my dad would make me help work on his trucks in the freezing cold and the miserable work of taking care of hogs in the freezing cold, I used to feel like the snowflake of the family but now I’m the tough blue collar kid in my social circle. I’m thankful as hell I can fix cars but I never plan on touching hog shit again lmao.
Jack,
Take the kiddos to Dallas World Aquarium. That place is amazing!!
Jack, great show. Thanks for the prompt to GSD with the kids more. Summer vacation had us running around and fishing, but need to bring in some other skillets.