Time for a few more suggestions you and your family can do together to pick up or improve survival skills.  One of the tips this week is especially good for home schoolers.

            Plant a garden, no matter how small.  Involve the whole family.  Of course, you probably already thought of that one, especially if you’ve looked at this blog much at all in the past few weeks.  If you’re a first timer, get all the knowledge you can.  Some of it won’t make sense until you’ve had some experience, but you know that’s just the way so much of life goes.  Don’t worry about how small your gardening efforts are.  Every little bit helps, even if it is growing a couple of herbs in a window sill.  If nothing else, it’s good for the soul.  Plants can really boost morale.

            Pick a room in your house and completely stock it for one year.  For example, you might pick the master bathroom and buy enough toilet paper, soap, shampoo, toothpaste, razors, Qtips, and the like to supply it for one year.  Do this for a different room each week or each month and before you know it, you’ll have quite the stockpile which will see you through any emergency.

Have everyone in the family research survival topics for one day.  Document their

findings, then report what they found out at a family meeting the next day.  This will help each one to learn more about survival.   It will especially help the kids with research, documentation, and giving reports.  If you’re home schooling, this can all be counted for school work.

            One very important survival topic is first aid.  Practice first aid skills and put together a first aid kit. After a disaster has shut down everything, especially if one of the children is ill, you don’t want to be reading a first aid handbook, wishing you had been better prepared.  Practice these important first aid skills this weekend so everyone has a basic knowledge of what to do.  Get books or a knowledgeable friend to help.

            John Wanted me to tell you that Nitro-Pak has a good first aid kit for 1-14 people.  It’s the "Group Outfitter" Outdoorsman First-Aid Kit.  Though the name says it’s for outdoorsmen, don’t kid yourself.  If things get really rough, we may all be living as if we’re camping out.  Small wounds or cuts can become life threatening if not properly cleaned and dressed.  This full-sized kit from Nitro-Pak is ideal for everything from base camps for hunting parties, scout camps, family camping trips, group backpacking or fishing trips.  It will surely serve your needs in disaster situations.

            This "Group Outfitter" Outdoorsman First-Aid Kit is designed to cover the most common injuries that can happen when you’re in the outdoors or during an emergency.  You get what you need to deal with sprains, strains, cuts, scrapes, open wounds, burns, fractures, hunting gunshot and arrow wounds, fishhook removal & treatment, and much more.  It comes with the Comprehensive Guide to Wilderness Medicine.  Discover improvised techniques on what to do when you don’t have what you need.  Know when to worry and get professional medical help.

            Click on the logo for Nitro-Pak and type the words First Aid Kits in their home page search box.  You’ll see the "Group Outfitter" Outdoorsman First-Aid Kit pictured with other kits on the page.  Click on the picture if you want to read more about what this kit includes because there’s just way too much to mention here.  This is a kit you and your family won’t want to be without.

            See you for more Family Survival School next week!

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