How To Proof Your Family Against Future Shock

If a hurricane swept your home away, would your family know how to survive? Would you be self-sufficient? Self-sufficiency comes from sharing many active family pursuits.

Aboriginal youngsters surveyed recently were in the third generation on unemployment benefit. They couldn't grasp the concept of why they should work. The government gives them everything.

I was given a dozen hens because the owner didn't know how to kill and dress them, and didn't want to cook them once I had done the work.

Kids Activities

Parents may not feel confident to guide family pursuits, because they have never done it themselves. Don't worry. You can learn just before your kids, and give them the idea that you can handle any family pursuits. My dad taught me French, Latin and German, learning them a lesson or two ahead of me.

Systematic Kids Activities

Don't let the family realize that the fun and games are for their own good, so that the family can experience budgeting, arts and crafts, gardening, cooking, keeping and butchering animals or just fishing and cleaning the fish. Don't let your family pursuits be so few and uneducational that your children could end up dieing within sight of food and water because they don't know how to unzip a banana, or clarify a mud puddle.

You may be the world's best treacle-bender, but what if employers no longer want skilled treacle-benders? If you don't know how to do anything else what are you going to do?

An English electronic technician was walking through his place of work in the USA when he saw some carpenters hanging a door that would open the wrong way. He pointed it out to them and they put it right. His work-mates were amazed that an electronic technician should be able to spot a carpenter's mistake.

If your family has lots of projects you are preparing them to be versatile. Needlework will help a newbie surgeon. Cookery will help a chemistry student. If they learn to replace tap washers they won't be at the mercy of plumbers. You never know when painting, gardening, simple mechanics or mending a puncture will be important to them. In fact anything they learn can have an unexpected value in the future.

Products of the kids construction will have to be proudly displayed. They may not have craftsman finish and flair, but each project represents another ability that might be needed one day. It doesn't matter if pottery is distorted if it carries water to avoid dieing of thirst.

And yes(!) boys need to learn to cook and sew. If they go to college and they can't cook their health will probably deteriorate. If they allowed a friend to bleed to death out in the bush because they couldn't thread a needle to sew them up imagine how they would feel.

A young lady might just have to stand and look helpless to get the boys clustering round to fix her car, do the gardening, clean the gutters, kill the hens, fix the door lock etc. but if she doesn't know how to do it herself, will she have as many helpers when she is 50 years old?

Conclusion

You can rely on supermarkets while fuel for transport lasts, if there are no hurricanes, or earthquakes, or tsunamis. You need family activities to be prepared.

Over and over again the author is thankful for parents that showed us how to be self-reliant and versatile. Get great ideas for family endeavours here http://familypursuits.com/ and family health here http://healthforu.info/health/healthfood/