How to Teach Situational Awareness to Children – Part 1, by T.Y.
(Part 1 of 5) Until I was four years old my family lived in the “old house.” It was a wooden, four-room cabin overlooking a mountain stream. My grandfather built the cabin in the 1940s. When we wanted...
View ArticleHow to Teach Situational Awareness to Children – Part 2, by T.Y.
(Continued from Part 1.) In Part 1 of this series, I covered why it’s critical that we teach situational awareness preparedness skills to children. The way I like to do that is with age-appropriate...
View ArticleHow to Teach Situational Awareness to Children – Part 4, by T.Y.
(Continued from Part 3.) Game 4: Bug Out! Summary Teach the concept of evacuation and what is important to bring by simulating an event where their toys must leave home. Concepts Taught Strategic...
View ArticleEconomics & Investing For Preppers
Today, on Christmas Day, in place of my normal Friday news column, I have this special bit of investing commentary for my readers: Investing In Your Children’s Future Today, December 25th, for most...
View ArticlePreparedness Principles – Part 2, by Old Bobbert
(Continued from Part 1. This concludes the article.) Bobbert’s Principle #5 – Principles are never my personal possession I try daily to practice the principles regularly promoted on Sundays as being...
View ArticleProviding Pictorial Gear Manuals for Your Group, by R.H.
Introduction The generator sputtered one more time, the noise only slightly louder than the un-Christian commentary coming from my mouth. The quarterly test-run for my generator checkout was not going...
View ArticleA 2022 Retrospective: America’s Negatrends
In place of our regular Odds ‘n Sods column for this week, we are presenting a late-2022 summary listing of negative societal trends — what I call negatrends — and political machinations, with some...
View ArticleUpdate: A Home-Based Business — Your Ticket to The Boonies
JWR’s Introductory Note: This article is an update and substantial expansion to a piece that I wrote back in December of 2005. — The majority of SurvivalBlog readers that I talk and correspond with...
View ArticleReader Poll: New SurvivalBlog Feature Topics
It has been several years since we’ve conducted an opinion poll of blog readers. Because SurvivalBlog has been published for nearly 18 years, we’ve covered a lot of topics. But, obviously, we’ve missed...
View ArticleHomeschooling Nuts and Bolts – Part 1, by R.B., EdD.
It is common knowledge that American public education is a failure. We have known for years that our students do not measure up to students in other countries, even very poor ones. For decades we have...
View ArticleHomeschooling Nuts and Bolts – Part 2, by R.B., EdD.
(Continued from Part 1. This concludes the article.) CURRICULUM—OH MY! This is a truly scary word for beginning homeschoolers, and it really doesn’t need to be. You are the one who gets to decide what...
View ArticleHomeschooling, a Report From the Trenches – Part 1, by N.C.
I was surprised to see that homeschooling was a topic of interest for SurvivalBlog but given homeschooling’s growth over the last few years, I ought not have been. So first, why should you listen to...
View ArticleHomeschooling, a Report From the Trenches – Part 2, by N.C.
(Continued from Part 1.) Three principles for educating your child Educating your children is going to take a lot of investment. In beginning stages the things you need are free or cheap but you will...
View ArticleHomeschooling, a Report From the Trenches – Part 3, by N.C.
(Continued from Part 2. This concludes the article.) Resources and Recommendations Sorry, I don’t have a free full curriculum link for you. All new homeschooling parents look for it and I was no...
View ArticleRebuilding: The Role of the Post-TEOTWAWKI Librarian, by W.J.
What will be missing during the great reconstruction of America after TEOTWAWKI is the knowledge of how to do it. Those wonderful how-tos on YouTube will no longer be available unless people have...
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