If you have children, how involved are they in your preps? I've read at various times don't tell your kids anything, they are little loudpeakers, I was thrown off another forum for saying that we include our children that are at home (28 (yeah, 28 isn't really a child), 17 and 11) in pretty much everything we do. (The comment was "you must be an A$$hole father, I never tell my kids ANYTHING I do) and I said Oh like Obama? Apparently a poor choice of words. Anyway, what brought up this subject was dinner last night. We always sit down together as a family for dinner, seven days a week (sometimes someone can't make it). We were talking about the proposed gun ban (my wife and I) and my 11 year old looked like he was about to start crying. I asked him what was wrong, did the conversation bother him? He said "Other people buy guns to hunt, but you buy guns for protection (?). I asked him if guns bother him (he loves to shoot). No. I let it drop, but I thought about it for awhile. His best friend, with whom he spends the night almost once a week, has a dad who uses his garage as a gun safe. Probably five or six hundred guns. My caddy-corner neighbor ran a gun shop all his life. Lots of guns. And so forth. I'm undoubtedly the most under-gunned person on the block (single digits). Later on I asked Jon what that was all about, and he said nothing, I just woke up (from a nap).
Back on topic; the two kids that are still in school are going to public school. (Bing refuses to home school, although he is a professor and taught for five years. So we unlearn what the school is teaching them. (For example, they didn't know that Lincoln disliked blacks and thought them to be inferior to the white man). Sometimes the teachers tell them somethig useful (RJ said the smart a$$ sitting behind him in chemistry asked the teacher why we don't use gold and silver for money and the teacher went nuts. (Daddy, I think she is reading the same stuff you are). Fiat money, monetary collapse, etc. Likewise at least one of the teachers has taught him about die-off (the world population has gone from 3 to 7 billion in only thirty years), unsustainable.
The 28 year old is involved with his fiance, body building etc, but one day I looked at his facebook page, and he is posting articles that mirror what I'm reading about, so he's not asleep.
Bing has lived in four countries that have collapsed and plays her cards very close to her chest. She doesn't say much other than the United States is completely over, but Americans are too stupid to see it, and if you talk about it at work, they will fire you.
If you have kids, do you share your thoughts/some of your thoughts with them?
edited to add all the kids have lived in the Philippines at one time or another, so inequality is not new to them
Back on topic; the two kids that are still in school are going to public school. (Bing refuses to home school, although he is a professor and taught for five years. So we unlearn what the school is teaching them. (For example, they didn't know that Lincoln disliked blacks and thought them to be inferior to the white man). Sometimes the teachers tell them somethig useful (RJ said the smart a$$ sitting behind him in chemistry asked the teacher why we don't use gold and silver for money and the teacher went nuts. (Daddy, I think she is reading the same stuff you are). Fiat money, monetary collapse, etc. Likewise at least one of the teachers has taught him about die-off (the world population has gone from 3 to 7 billion in only thirty years), unsustainable.
The 28 year old is involved with his fiance, body building etc, but one day I looked at his facebook page, and he is posting articles that mirror what I'm reading about, so he's not asleep.
Bing has lived in four countries that have collapsed and plays her cards very close to her chest. She doesn't say much other than the United States is completely over, but Americans are too stupid to see it, and if you talk about it at work, they will fire you.
If you have kids, do you share your thoughts/some of your thoughts with them?
edited to add all the kids have lived in the Philippines at one time or another, so inequality is not new to them
Last edited: