Things you should prep if you have young children

Their grandfather was a true cowboy...amazing and very knowledgeable. He unfortunately passed away, but we still spend time with grandma at the ranch and they love exploring, playing with animals, etc. but it is not the same as still having him around...not too many men like my father-in-law around anymore!

 

One thing i did with our kids was to set up three banks for them... one was tithe, one was save, and one was spend... 10% of the money went to tithe. At Christmas time each child determined who, where, what and why they were giving their money to and reported it at the family Christmas party... my oldest normally gave to SPCA/animal rescue shelter when she was little, My middle son Gave to the local food kitchen.. the youngest picked a family in need and provided food and toys/clothes for the family... 50% of their money went into the save bank... and the remaining 40% was available to spend as they saw fit.... It taught them to be giving to those less fortunate... to always save some of their money... and to be frugal in their spending.... currently all have decent sized bank accounts and know how to handle their money... may not be a normal Prep but makes sense to me...

 

Really great idea...that I will be stealing . They both have piggy banks but I love the idea if the tithe and some for spending

 

I'd also suggest glue for craft projects, and duct tape for when their toys suffer mishaps.

 

Colored chalk and black boards or black board paint.... extends creativity, educates, and is cheap...

 

A quick "hi" to everyone; I'm new here, and new to the idea of prepping, but not to being self-sufficient (have a garden, some yard-birds, homebrew, can/preserve, etc.).

+1 for distributing copies of curricula and lessons! (I'd even pay for materials and postage )I'm really interested in copies / repositories of lessons and curicula, and especially learning games to play with my young boys. I try to make chores around the house fun and educational (did you know that bread rises because of yeast farts?), and would love to find more things to share with them.

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I just saw the second page of the thread (facepalm); What a great collection of ideas!

 

Was it Johnson&Johnson who are doing a massive recall on a bunch of their OTC meds? I think some types of Benadryl and Sudafed were mentioned.

 

Comfort foods, treats and children's vitamins would be an important addition to food storage, as children tend to be pickier about eating and a survival situation can be stressful for them.

 

I don't know if this will help or not in the "comfort" foods department but I found our children went through a picky phase because I (hanging head in shame) let them get away with being picky. I was working full time back then and had to travel and it pretty much started when they begged for 'Lunchables' because their friends had them and then I broke down and bought some Kosher hot dogs and mac and cheese for my husband to toss at them one week when I knew I'd run low on home made prepared foods for the week in the freezer. They liked all the junk.... of course they did with all the obesegens added to processed and fast foods that keep them addicted and begging for more. One thing led to another until I woke up and realized what I'd done. I called it quits on the 'Lunchables' because.... if I didn't buy it for them.... they wouldn't be eating that garbage any more for lunch. Then I went back to preparing meals to stash in the freezer and they stopped whining for junk after a month or so. It's pretty much just as easy to make 4 trays of vegetable lasagna or 4 trays of stuffed green peppers or 4 chicken casseroles or or or 4 trays of anything wholesome one day over the weekend as it is to make just one tray for one night and that way on nights when there was barely enough time to check homework and hustle them off to the bathtubs.... I always had a home cooked meal for them from my freezer stash. When my mother cooked.... we ate what she put on the table or went hungry. I got myself in trouble deviating from my mother's style of one meal for everyone every night with no "special" orders. I think reverting long ago is going to help us out a lot when the grocery stores get wiped out because none of us will be forced to go "cold turkey" on junk since we're already not eating much of it.

 

We don't keep junk in the house, anyway. But chocolate is a food group here and so is hot cocoa and tea in the winter.

 

Ya.... I screwed up big time when I let the junk in. I paid the piper though and they say.... hind sight is always 20/20..... Kraft's Lunchables.... what was I thinking>>>?

Here too.... I bought 4 bags of Nestles Tollhouse semi-sweet chocolate chips and another tin of Nestles cocoa. I use the cocoa to make rum balls over the holidays and also in thermoses to send with them when they go winter camping.