WOMEN'S WEDNESDAY: Kids in Prepping Homestead Honey Hour

You've just joined the Prepper Broadcasting Network, where we promote self reliance and independence. The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of the host or their guests. Visit us in the interactive chat room at prepper broadcasting dot com. Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the Homestead Honey Hour. This is Cat's Cradle. You may know me from my YouTube channel. I'm also here once or twice a month on the Homestead Honey Hour, and I always look forward to it. Tonight, I have a special guest. It happens to be my thirteen year old daughter, who we affectionately refer to on YouTube as Prepper A, and she's going to be joining me in just a little bit talking about how to involve your children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews, well not just children, teenagers, especially in your preparedness efforts in trying to become self sufficient and self reliant and doing all those things we do every day to try to be better prepared. 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Looking at the chat room here, a lot of you are talking about the warm weather and getting things planted. Same thing here. It's just the weather has been beautiful here in central Missouri. It has got up into the eighty degrees the last few days. We're finally going to get some rain tonight, which we desperately need. We're still in drought condition here. The winter snows did not add much to to our moistures, so we're really struggling here now. I had a friend over this afternoon who was talking about she has a well on her form that's only about three or four miles from me, it's just slightly higher elevation than we are, and she said her well had growne dry, that so many of the farmers had put in these huge long arms that sprinkled their crops and had been using them, and that the well was dry. So that's a little scary. We're we're not in a good way here, and they're forecasting that the summer is going to be dry as well, so I'm not sure what that's going to hold for us here. Uh yeah, I hope we're first pass first for offt because Preparay did some planning this week, and I sure hope, I sure hope we're not going to dip out here again. Well, without further ado, let me go ahead and bring my guests on. I am proud. I have two children. One is a thirty year old who is on his own, self reliant down in Texas with a wife and a baby, and is doing just great. I don't talk about him so much because our we don't rub shoulders day today. But I do talk about Preparae, who is still at home and she is thirteen years old, and I think what I'll just let her do is tell her a little more about tell you a little more about herself. Preparay, Welcome to the Homestead Honey Hour. Thank you very much, Chash. It's awesome to be here. I love the Homestead Honey Hour and the Honeys and it's so cool to be here. You can just call me Mom, Okay, thanks Mom, Okay. She has been my right hand person for a long time. If you follow my YouTube channel, you know that she is my videographer, my photographer, my Sousshe my my famous taste tester. She is. Yet well and really and truly. I mean I know that that, you know, really strict people say you're not your job and to be your kid's friend, it's to be their disciplinary and their teacher and all that stuff. But I've got to tell you, she really is my best friend. She's home school, so she's here all day. We're seldom apart, and I wouldn't have it any other way. I don't know how she feels about that. Oh no, but definitely, Mom, You're my best friend. I love being around you. I love cooking in the kitchen with you, I love gardening with you, and I love making YouTube videos with you. Well, I'm glad to hear that. Why don't you go ahead and give them a little background on yourself? Okay, As you know, I'm preppar A. I live in central Missouri, and well, I guess I could say I had a bit of a rough start to life. I was very very small when I was born, about three pounds, and at a very young age, my parents decided that I should be homeschooled and cats my mom quit her job as a corporate daycare director to come home. I moved from Casey to a rural location when I was about i'd say six years old, and we and mom got a public school teaching position. I went with her to school, and I was in fourth grade, which was actually the room next to hers. And I liked that a lot. I could keep an eye on you and could hear what the teacher was saying. And I was actually in public school from fourth to seventh grade. And after that we both left school and decided. To come back home. So I'm homeschooled once again. I skipped two grades, so I'm a thirteen year old in my freshman year of high school. I'm taking two soft level classes this. Year and I'm looking forward to oh and. I'm loving returning to homeschooling. So I have a lot of hobbies. Some of them aren't quite what you'd call normal hobbies. I love nice throwing and archery, but I also love fishing and shooting and gardening. I love cooking with my mom and mending clothes. I enjoy running and playing basketball. And I love music. I play the recorder, piano, auto harp, clarinet, and I enjoy composing music and have even written parts from my high school band. I love animals, especially birds, and I love photographing them especially. Okay, that about it, you think, I think, so, Okay, she's a bit of a tomboy if she's wearing jeans and a T shirt and a baseball hat. Lots of times I'll make her go back in a room put earrings on. You know it's bad when when you get when you go to the subway shop to order a kid's meal, and the and the porteenage boy behind the counter is staring at your child, and I'm like, what is his problem? And he eventually said, uh, do you want to you want a girl's toy or a boy's toy? That is true, is actually happened. I said, she's a girl, but but she might prefer the boy's toy. Who knows? So anyway, lots of lots of times. My last word I'm walking out the door is go to your room, for heaven's sakes, and get some ear rings. At least, you know, some girly looking ear rings. So anyway, we know she'll outgrow that when she when she gets all dolled up. She's a beauty, that's for sure. But most often she's in jeans, a T shirt and a baseball cap. Uh. I think she's I think she's let me put a little mess are on us her twice as we've dressed up to for something. But she's a fussy and groans and moans the whole time. It's a bit of a rare occurrency. It is rare, that is true. Okay, So let's talk a little bit. Oh, and you are welcome to call in and ask her questions. She would love to talk to you and the number is three four seven two zero two zero two two A. We'll be giving out a few prizes this evening for those of you who call in you might be interested. If you look on the show page write down below the chat right now, you'll see where it says Jake and Miller's Big Adventure, a Preppers book for kids. I have not read this book, but g Man highly recommends it. It's by Bernie Carr, and it's available at Amazon dot com and you can look you can look below the chat for more information there. But if you call in to talk to Preppara or to me, we'd be happy to give a few of those up of those away tonight. Okay, let's just see if there's any Oh, that's a good question. We were going to talk about that at the end of the show, but we can just talk about it right now. Dory five one nine says prepara, what would you like to do in your future? Well, I haven't exactly decided yet, and I think I have some time because I'm still you know, I'm only thirteen, but I've looked into horticulture and things in that of that nature. I'd also consider being a band director, as I love music there. I mean, there's a lot of possibilities, a lot of things that I can do, and I haven't decided yet. I'm still thinking them all over. I have a friend down in Texas who is a brain surgeon, and I mentioned that one day and she started researching brain surgeons and she thought that was a really cool idea. And then one day, all of a sudden, she came out of the restroom and she said, I'm not going to be a brain surgeon. I said why not? She said, well because I just pulled one of my teeth and I saw blood, and my knees got weak and I felt sick at my stomach. I thought I was going to pass out. So brain surgeon went out the window in one in one day. So, which is kind of. Funny because I'm fine with you know, like hunting and fishing and stuff. I can see animal blood, it's human blood I don't like. Well, she's got lots of times to the side's and she's got lots of options. Like I tell her all the time, the world is her apple. It helps to be smart, and she is, and there's lots of different directions she can go. And we're really hoping that her brains and her talent help get her nice a nice scholarship. That's our hope for sure. I don't really care what phil it is. Just as long as we get the scholarship, that's what I really hope. So keep studying, girlfriend, we'll do. She's taken a couple of challenging courses this year. She's taking a tough biology class that she's loving, and she's taking a really challenging literature class that's focusing on biographies. How many books do you think y'all have read this year? Oh? Goodness, I'd say almost ten. I think they've probably ten complete biographies this year. So she's really she's really been working hard. All right, let's talk a little bit about how to get children and teenagers involved in the self sufficient lifestyle. Okay, so let's talk about I think a good place to start, and really, if any of you, if any of you have any questions, we're going to be checking the chat. If you would if you would write your question in read, then I would be able to see it very easily instead of just searching for the question marks on there. And also you're welcome to Colleen three two four seven. Oh, I'll always forgive. When I got four seven to zero two zero two two eight, thank you, and g Man will drop that number in periodically. You're welcome to call in and talk to us. Okay, so let's go back. What are your first memories or when did you When did you realize that our family might not quite do things in the way that other families do them. I think that started back when we were still living in Kansas City. I know that we had a fairly large garden in our backyard where we grew tomatoes and squash and you know, other vegetables. But I think my real first memories were of my strawberry patch. I loved picking strawberries. I think I was probably. Three years old. Yeah, you were little. I was really little. And picking the strawberries out of there and would bring them in the house and I'm gonna put sugar on them and we'd eat them, and I thought that. Was just the coolest thing ever. It was so great. And then also pruning moms daisies. I think that got me more interested in plants and you know, being out outdoors and getting my hand in the soil, just enjoying that feeling of you know, planting and harvesting. You know, that was one of your jobs, was dead heading the daisy. That was something I could let you do. I'd sit her in a little chair with a straw hat on, with a pair of scissors, and she'd move around that they were planted around the base of a tree in a circle, and she would with her little scissors dead had all my daisies. And you know, it didn't really hurt much if she made a mistake, but she didn't. She did a great job. And I have pictures of you about that same age in the garden planning with your dad, planning tomatoes. And we were in the city, and that was probably something you noticed too. Nobody around us had a garden. We were the only one who in our kind of yuppy neighborhood they had that had dug up the backyard and planted vegetables. I think you're probably right. I don't really remember anybody else around us doing that. I wanted her to like that. I mean, I wanted her to have that experience because I was always in the garden with my grandmother, and I remember how much fun it was. And I don't know if you remember, but I would have little, uh, little surprises in the garden for you, like, uh, you know, a little gnome tucked under the climatis, or you know, a little deer laying down. I had all kinds of little uh, you know, little dragonfies. Do you remember those. I remember that. I remember seeing, you know, little little deer statues, and I remember how fun it was to, you know, try and find those, discovering them. That's great, that's great, of course. And we always you always had a love of nature. We had a screened in back porch that we called the treehouse because on the second level right tucked up in a big oak tree. And uh, she was always talking about the bees and the birds and the squirrels chasing each other around the tree. So uh, we fostered a love of nature very early. And you, I hope, definitely. I know we have family home videos of me sitting out on that on that in that treehouse, watching all the squirrels run in the trees and watching them run up and on the trunks. And I remember that. That even then, that I loved how. The the air felt outside, how cool the air felt when I stepped out of the house, and how all the green grass looked and the beautiful flowers. I knew then that I loved it. Okay, I see two questions in the chat room prepparay, what is your favorite or least favorite preparatore? Oh, that's that's okay. I know what she's gonna say for least favorite, because we were just kind of talking about something like that. Do you remember what you said? I think my least favorite one is pulling weeds, isn't that it? Well, I was going to say, I was gonna say, dealing with slugs. Okay, Yes, that's it, pulling slugs off the lettuce and around the lettuce and just in the garden. Generally, I hate that job. Oh what did you say? Pulling weeds? Yeah, but we don't have a lot of that because of the mulg. Right, So yeah, we don't have so much of that anymore. Okay, and uh okay, and here's here's one for you. Oh I didn't answer what my favorite one. My favorite purple chore I think is probably planting. Planting, the. Planting the garden and getting my hands on the soil, and you know, seeing the little seeds and watching them grow up. So I think gardening really implanting the garden is my favorite one. Okay, I don't see what Amber has to say. Okay, A, what do you feel is most likely specific challenge to our country next oh, five or six years that prepping will help. That's a great question. I think that probably the challenge we will have is the generation rising up. I wouldn't necessarily say economic or you know, you know, E and P, but I would say the generation that's growing up dealing with any challenges that may arise, because I don't think that my generation is prepared for that. I know our parents are a little prepared, but I don't think the generation growing up is going to be capable of handling those things. And I think that's the biggest challenge we have, is trying to raise the generation. And what do you think that or the challenges that they're going to face. I think definitely as more and more countries develop more and more weapons. I think just dealing with trying to keep fights down and trying to you know, stay out of other people's business, you know, and trying to keep the United States, you know, in our place and not to go picking fights. So I think that's the biggest thing. And you know, there there's always been a bit of economic hardship, and it comes and goes in waves, so it's kind of hard to say exactly when. But that was a great question. Well, and I think I think what you what you say is it is noteworthy because this is, I mean, something peculiar to this generation. I feel is and and I don't I don't want to overstay this and be too dramatic, but it's a bloodthirsty generation and they're trained on that. They're trained that way based on the movies they watch and the video games they watch and that kind of thing. Don't you think that's right? I think we're trying to you know, when the you know, kids are. Playing the video games that are all about war and. Murder, yeah, and murder, and watching TV shows about murder and movies that are about war. I mean, there's nothing wrong with watching historical things, but things that are way overplayed and become way too dramatic. I think they get that in their minds that that's okay because they're playing characters in the video games that do that, and they get that in their mind that, you know, war is a is an active thing and that we should be always be interested in becoming the great world superpower. So I think that that maybe if we toned it down a bit, we wouldn't have so many problems in the United States. Yeah, there's not a lot of movies out there about how to make peace and live civilly? Are there? That's right, there's not. If you look at the percentage of movies, it's mostly about war and bloodshed. Yeah, okay, good point. Go ahead and keep writing your questions there in the chat room. We like that very much. I see them. Homer said, are there other kids your age thinking about prepping? Okay, that's a that's a good question. I think there are go on YouTube and look, I mean I know Michigan snow Pony, I've seen her kids in a few videos, and I know I've seen Noreen's kids in a few videos. So yeah, I mean there's there's other kids interested in that, And I think that's reassuring. If you're looking to get your kids interested in prepping, take them on YouTube, show them that they're they're not alone, that that their parents aren't alone, that they're not alone, that there are other kids and other families out there that are prepping. Renee just slid in, said high Preparae. Hi Okay, preparae with your long list of hobbies, which one is your favorite to do with your mom? Okay, I would say my favorite to. Do with my mom is cooking. I love making YouTube videos about her cooking. I think she's an amazing cook and I have rarely found anything that she cooks that I don't like. And I think being her channel taste tester is my favorite hobby. That what we get to try the most amazing things. Yeah, we should make a video about our setup for when we're filming videos, because it's very interesting. I have a fairly small kitchen and now we're using some professional lighting. So we've got all these legs that are of these lighting tripods. Then we've got the camera tripod. Then lots of times I try to sit in a chair so that I'm actually below the level of all those lights and that kind of thing, and then as standing in there, it's crazy. We look like a bunch of giraffes, you know, tripping and falling all over each other. It's crazy, but we manage. Let's see what we've got here. Okay, what about your friends? Do you interact with any of your friends and prepping activities? Not really, No, I wouldn't say that I have any friends that I really interact with with prepping activities without you know, operational security. There's not a lot that you can tell your friends about about prepping without you know, kind of revealing your preps. So I know I have, Oh that's right. We do have a couple of friends that are in you know, that are in. Can into canning and hunting. Yeah, and you've target practice with some people, and well that's right, and you know they're practicing, so yeah, a little bit. Uh oh. The other thing I was going to mention when somebody talked about people your age prepping, you could surprise how many how many young people subscribe to my channel who send me emails and private messages saying I need to ask you a question because I can't talk to my mom and dad about this. I'm the only one in my family who's who's into preparedness and self reliance and that kind of thing. So yeah, there are a lot of kids out there, and you just can't imagine how much what go what they hear in the news impacts them and their parents. Uh, you know, have have what's the word, have have become immune to what they hear and and just don't let it bother them. But the kids, kids worry and they're concerned. And yeah, there's lots of kids out there prepping. Jim in Texas says he fantasizes about cats being his mother. I am a very lucky dollar. Oh my gosh, Jim love you. Let's see, I've applied to the Yatiger's small place. Oh yes, absolutely, no, you know how it is too. She's got a small kitchen too. Okay, let's uh. I remember when my girls were little, there were certain places in the house that were off the women's playing hide and seek. Yeah, I hear you, Yeah exactly. Yeah, I mean you want to. I mean you've prepared for your family, and it's not that you don't want to care for other people as well, But you've got to be smart. There's lots of people who don't prepare, and uh, you know, while while you have concern for them, you've got to be careful. I think Gimian wants to come on and ask you a couple of questions. Okay, well, thanks, thank you so much, and thank you Prepara for coming on. This is fun. My question relates a little bit back to you and your friends. Do you have ever have you know, kids are so open minded with each other, unlike a lot of adults. Do you do you have. Other kids ever give you a hard time or a bad time about prepping type issues or are Do you find kids that you're afraid to share that with like many adults do that are in this prepper community, they tend to really hesitate or not share at all what they do with other adults. Do you find that to be true with the kids your age? Okay, well that's a that's a great question. I think gardening is mostly what I get to talk to my friends about because our front yard is fenced in and has mulchen it. And I had a friend that said he was gonna come by and drop a grass bomb in my in my front yard there's some grass would grow and then, you know, but their minds were changed when we started bringing tomatoes to the salad bar at school. They all kind of relaxed after that, you know. But but I did have a few people saying, why do you spend so much time gardening? Wouldn't you rather be, you know, riding your bike or playing a video game? And you know, I had to, you know, combat a few of those those questions. But it wasn't really all that bad because I live in a rural community where people are more out to garden. But yeah, I can too. Before you quit is uh, how do you feel? What's your opinion of those that tend to to hide that they prep as far as other I mean, more adults. What is a thirteen year old perspective on that? Okay, well I see where they would they would want to hide it, and you know, even just not for operational security, but just afraid brothers would think of them. I think that you kind of need to have a you know whatever attitude. You know, if you tell somebody that you know, you know, starting out small gardening is generally not a very scary topic. But you know, say hey, I love the garden, and you know, if I ask you why, then you can start, you know, getting into why you garden and why you prepare. But I think don't be afraid to tell people because the more people you tell, the more people will be interested in prepping and gardening and self sufficiency. And so I think the more people that you tell, the better off you'll be. Right off. Thank you so much, thanks to man. Do you think more specifically to what he was asking, I think, do you think, uh, we as adults, that we should we should hide that we prep or not? No, Adam, you should now I think you know to to an extent. Yes, you need to be careful. You don't need to. You don't need to give people a tour of your prep. Oh yeah, no, no, no, but but but I think no, don't don't hide it if you know, for our family, that's part of who we are, that's part of what we do. It's our it's part of our lifestyle, you know, and you never should hide you know, who you are from people. Don't You think the smart thing, too is to is to not to not take on the image that you're preparing for some crazy disaster. You're prepared for an invasion of you know, little green men from Mars or something. But that but that people, people get laid off all the time, and it's good to have a backup and contingency plan. I mean we I mean you can share it in a in a real world scenario rather than some type of fantastical what if situation, right right. I think that's very important. You know, tell them that you base your preps and you know, of course, be honest with them, but tell them that you based your preps on things that happen every day. I mean the. Economy that you know went down in two thousand and eight, which I still don't think has recovered. But you know, and people, like you said, people are getting laid off, losing their jobs. I think it's important that they understand that it's a big deal and it happens to a lot of people. But I think, you know, presenting yourself is one of the crazy you know, doomsday preppers isn't a very good idea because then they'll just you know, put you off as a nutcase. So, you know, just kind of you know, take take a cautious approach to it. Okay, here's a good one prepper a would you ever join a community of young ones if your parents weren't around in the time of SHTF? Wow? Oh, now you have to realize this. Let me just say this. We live away from all family. We live in a location. We live in a town of less than a thousand people, way less than a thousand people, that is very remote, and there is no family. Our closest family is probably eight or nine hundred miles away. So now that question. Okay, So, like they're talking about, you know, if the you know, if the grid went down or something bad happened and there was a bunch of kids my age trying to get together and you know, help most definitely, yes, I would if my parents weren't around, Yes, I would, because I think it not only depends on my survival, but you know, I care about the other kids that are my age and I want them to survive it too. So definitely I would, you know, get together banned with other kids. In my age. Okay, you've got unusual group to choose from in this town, wouldn't you. Definitely? It would take some it would take some work. Okay. Uh, if you want to win a copy of Jake and Miller's Big Adventure for a child in your life, please call in to talk to Prepper A and we'll be happy to get one of those to you. Okay, let's see if we have any other questions here. I think I missed Did I miss one up here? No? I got it. Oh somebody somebody asked me earlier, what are the challenges of raising Oh? Here, hold on, just a minute, did Preppara answer the question about how long it took her to learn the video videography. No, I don't think you did. I didn't answer that question, which is it's a really interesting question. Okay. I had the benefit of my father, Palette and Prepper, and he's really good at taking pictures and video, so I learned a lot of things from him. I don't think it took me all that particularly long. I can definitely see that I'm. Better at it. The first few videos, you know, we're kind of shaky. We didn't have a tripod. I think they're better now, but you know, it kind of had a learning curve to it, so I can't really give a definite estimate on how long it took. I would say, you're still learning with don't you. I would definitely say, you know, there are some things I'm still figuring out, all the the little quirks of my camera and of the tripod, And I think as I learned more about the specific technology, but it will continue to get better. And it's even more than that. I mean, she's she's taking some great close up shots. She's learning how to style food on a plate, you know, how to make it look attractive and what color plate to put it on, and whether to put it on a place matter or do that kind of thing. So she has lots of really great questions about that. Somebody asked me, you know, how do you raise how do you raise a kid like this? And I will tell you, I'll go way, way way back, is that I think she's I think, first of all, let me say this that I think she is a unique individual and and some of what she is doesn't have anything to do with anything specific her father and I have done. And some of you know this, who have lots of children in your family, there may just be a standout who is just you know, blessed in the intellectual realm. And that's kind of what this kid is like, because certainly her. Usually what is typical is that a child will fall somewhere in between her parents' IQ, and that is not the case in this family. She is in a whole different category here. But we started very very young with her, teaching her and talking to her. We never talk to baby talk. Now. I'm not saying that when she oud and guden that we did not mimic that kind of thing back to her, because that's what you're supposed to do, and we did, but we were talking to her. Even from the time she was in a little you know, bassinette. We were talking to her and we were reading to her, and we were reading things way above her level to her. And when it got time for her to talk, she was just barely talking. And she said, uh, you guys have to teach me how to read. And I said, you're too young to read, and she said, she said, no, I'm not too young to read, you know, in her little baby baby talk voice. And I said, okay, we'll start tomorrow and she said why not today? And I'm like, okay, whatever. So sat down and I said, this is the truth. Here's here's how these letters sound. And I went through all the letters with her. She pretty much knew how the letters sound. That the s you know went and a tea went to and that kind of thing. And then so I just started teaching her the blends, what sounded like and sh sounded like, in th h sounded like. And I said, so, once you know those blends, and once you know the know the sound each letter makes, and you just join those sounds together, and she said, like this, and she started doing it. With two days. She was reading. Within a couple of months, She could read anything I could read in including college level material. Although she did not have the background to understand what it means, she certainly could read it. So she went to a baby shower with me. My principal was having a baby, and they passed up these little cards saying what advice would you give to the mother, and all the grown women there were filling it out. Well. Preparee had been invited to the shower, and this was two or three years ago, and she decided to feel it one of those cards. And I'm like, what in the world, what kind of advice is she giving? Do you remember what you said? I remember exactly what I said. I said, do not, under any circumstance. Talk baby talk, and you said, do not ever underestimate, right. Do not assume that they do not know yet. Do not assume that they do not know or cannot understand what you're saying. Teach it anyway. And so's that's my advice is to push, push, push, push, push as much as you can. The other thing that I did when I homeschooled. Lots of people asked me this because they're like, Oh, you're so lucky to have a kid like this, and I'm like, lucky. Nothing. We worked. We worked like crazy, but lots of people would ask me, what, oh, which curriculum did you use? We want to use that curriculum, please, you know, tell us what curriculum. I'm like, I didn't use a curriculum, and they say, what are you talking about? You don't order from a company, and like, no, I've never ordered. Well, how do you teach her? I said, I wait for the question, and when she has a question, I try to answer it the very best I can. One day, she said, how does popcorn pop? I'm like, I have no idea, but we're going to find out. And I spent a whole month teaching about popcorn. And we learned that's a little tiny bit of moisture in that popcorn and when it teats up, it creates steam and it causes that kernel to pop. We studied that. We made popcorn art, we made popcorn food. I found a popcorn farmer and we spent the whole week on popcorn. And then I waited for the next question. He was Penguin's next Penguins. And then we went after it. We learned about penguins, We rented penguin videos, we made penguin art when she said. One day, she was just a little over three years old, we're driving to church, and she says, she's in the back seat and her car seat, of course, her father and I are in the front, and she says, does the atmosphere around the earth rotate at the same speed that the Earth does? Then did the clouds move with the same speed? Ears turns yeah. I looked cross eyed at her father and said, you want to take that one? And he's like, uh, well, he started in on whatever he was going to say, and she said, hold, if you're talking about the jet stream, I know all about the jet stream, but I know what I'm like, Okay, we'll figure it out. So that's what we did the next week. So that's right, preparaized aliens, that's exactly right. So uh, anyway, that's what I've done. I never had I never bought a curriculum, never did. All I did was answer the question when the questions arise, the student is ready, and then that's what you uh, that's what you teach. Did I have to go to school as much as she did? Absolutely? Because she was always one step ahead. She still is. She knows higher math than I do, and she's now surpassed me in in science and for what I do today going forward, I don't have any idea. We just we play it by ear, one day at a time. Okay, let's let's get back to y'all. Nobody wants my book, nobody wants Jake and Miller's Big Adventure. You need to call in. Hey, just don't be shy. If a thirteen year old can come on here and talk in front of all of you, then one of you can certainly come on and join us. There you go. Okay, let's talk about because let me see how much time we have here. Huh, you only have twenty minutes, and there's so much we want to say. Okay, you tell me what you want to talk about of all the things you had planned to talk about. Okay, probably what I want to talk about in is, well, there's one big point I want to make, and can we can go into other stuff after I make this one point. Remember that even though you want to teach your kids all this really cool stuff about prepping and gardening, all the skills that gets learned, please please remember they are still a kid. And even though they may be capable of. Doing these things. Don't don't don't fill their heads with it all the time. You know, go out on. Fun family outings, you know, let him try a sport, you know, do something else with them. Just remember they're still a kid. With that said, get them involved in what you're doing. My dad, my dad's dad, my grandpa was a beekeeper, and my dad wanted to get you know, into that, and so he did. He just jump right in, started reading material and doing that kind of thing. Well, I got interested in it too, then he got badly. Welcomed me along. And so. I think, how can kids. Be involved in bee keeping? You know, I think the best thing is proper education about it. You know a lot of kids are afraid of bees because you know, the first thing you think of a bee is ouch, they're gonna sting me. But you know, have they never had honey on toast? I mean, the biggest thing is getting them to understand that a bee doesn't want to sting you. You know, that it's there to do its job and as long as you don't interfere with it doing interfere. With them doing their job, they're going to leave you alone. So, you know, just proper education on all prepping matters is the most important thing to get them involved. And you've been involved in bee keeping from the very beginning. I mean you went with your dad. You donned a white suit and went on his very first cutout. Remember when he cut it out of the big garage downtown. He was there right sun up to sundown that day cutting out that huge There were a lot of bees. There were a lot of bees, weren't there. And then even after you got the bees located up in the orchard, the whole next week was spent processing honey. And we learned that together, didn't we We did we? You know, definitely there's a learning curve to everything and prepping. They're just there, just is. And when you go into something, expect there to be a learning curve for you and then for your children. And yeah, we had to process the honey and learn, you know, how to strain it and how long it takes, and you know that the techniques that will be most effective and fastest. Yeah, good job. Let's talk a little bit about your responsibility with the animals. Okay, I think it's a great thing. One thing when you get you know, I remember going with my parents to the local farm and home store and hang out chicks. I thought it was the coolest thing. I get I said that about a lot of things, but they were all the coolest thing at the time. Going and you know, seeing all the various chicks and you know, you know, learning about pullets, and you know how how they try to divide the chickens, putting male and female and it's very hard. And you know, getting to bring them home and put them in a little cardboard box and raising them and then you know, whil a they start laying eggs, you know, they you know, we wait a few months and they're laying eggs and we get to come in and make an omelet. I think that's very. Very And this is a child who cooks an egg for herself almost every single morning. She is an egg eater. So I love eggs, so and she loves she loves her little hens and she just praises them when they when they lay. But yeah, we learned that together by doing. I had never raised chickens before. When we bought those little fluffy chicks home, you know, I'm just praying that the that the lamp, it's going to be warm enough for them. But we just learned it, didn't we And now we're totally confident about raising chickens, aren't we. Oh? Yes, one thing. Oh we also raised rabbits for a short period of time. We didn't. We didn't quite like that as much as the chickens because they weren't they didn't produce. Ever. No, we had the rabbits from hell, we really did, though. Those are the meanest suckers, my goodness, and I don't I don't want to hear you have to hold them more. They were that way from the beginning. I'm sorry. I know. While we're talking about holding your animals, Well, it's good to form a caretaker's bond. You don't want to form a pet bond with the chickens. It's easier because you're not going to kill them for food. That's That's a good tip though for somebody who's new into this and want to get to get their children and their grandchildren involved. Yeah, that you're. Not the circle of life. Yeah, it's the circle of life. Something, something is gonna die, even though you've tended it very well. If it can be born, it can be it can die. Yeah. So you know what, I think a good place to start probably and uh, I mean, I don't want to be sexist here, but I can see a little boys loving it. Wouldn't a worm farm be a great thing to start kids with? Yes, oh, cat, you're brilliant. A worm farm farm is definitely very cool. Now. I know there are some kids that don't like worms. Well that's because they weren't exposed to them enough. Get the kid a worm farm. It's fairly easy to maintain. You know, they're gonna give you worm tea and castings, all that great stuff to put on your garden. What you get your kids involved in. But you know, a worm farm kind of gets them involved in the importance of earth worms in many aspects of gardening. So definitely a worm farm great place to start them with. Raising things. We're all say, Okay, we've got a little bit of time. I'm hearing a little music there. I hope he's not trying to get rid of us. Okay, let's see here. I'm going to try to look at my notes. Here. Oh, here's a here's a great one. Did you see a question? Oh, he's PM Let me go look and see what. I'm sorry, I'm trying to do two things. Why don't you talk. About Actually, our first caller just dropped off casts, but we do have Emily up first, and then Sindy next. When you're ready, okay, and Kara. Kara called back. Who's the first one, Emma? See Emily? Emily? And who's next? Cindy, Emily and Sidy. Okay, bring Emily in. I'm sorry we got Kara. She is here, so if I can't her in first? Good? Good, good? Hi Kara? Are you there? Hey? Yes, O here, Hello, I'm good. I just wanted to call that you call your daughter very well and I really enjoyed listening to your show tonight. Thank you so much. I'm so glad you called in. Would you like to have one of our books? Yes? I would. Okay, Well stay on the line and g Man will get that book for you. Uh, g Man? Can you can I talked to Emily while you deal with her or not? Yes? She can? Okay, thank you. Emily is on the line. Hi Emily, Hi, how are you? I'm great? How are you? I'm great? This is so how to preparaate? Oh, high preparation. Hi, Emily, I had talked to you earlier. This is my first time listening in and my family. Is very new pairedness game, and I had this is the perfect not to listen for the first time. Oh great, and I just kind of wanted to. I guess it's kind of for the both of you. I know, coming from a girl whose mom was. In the public school system and was homeschooled herself, we're on the sensuout our little one, and I just wanted to get from prepara perspective if that made a difference in the family closeness and the family pressing, if she would have it another way, or would you even change anything about how you have lived your life so far? Great question, Thank you, Emily. Okay, I'm really excited to answer this question because I was hoping somebody would would bring this up. Okay, I wouldn't change a thing. I am so glad that I got to experience both homeschooling and public schooling, because I don't think I appreciated homeschooling as much as I should have until I went to public school. I learned way more when I was home school. I got, you know, more bonding time with my parents because I was home all the time, and it was an absolute relief to come back home after four years in four years in the public school system. I think it helped a lot with prepping, especially because in the middle of the day at noon, if I want to go out and chick for eggs. From the chickens, I can do that. I can feed the chickens, I can tend the garden, I can do whatever. In addition to my classes. And I don't have to be tied, not tied, but at a desk all day where I'm you know, pretty much only learning about twenty percent of each hour. So I you know, it's a lot better usage of their time and a lot better investment in their education. Yeah, and you would agree that that if you're going to home school. I mean, the question always comes up about socialization and and and and that's a valid point that you have to have. You have to have avenues for your for your child to be socialized. Luckily, for us, we live in a very small town. It's eight square blocks and all the kids play every afternoon together. There's plenty of socialization, of course, Uh you know clubs. And I also play in the high school band. Yeah, she does. She does go in one hour a couple of times a week, two or three times a week. To play with the high school band because unfortunately I can't provide her with you know, fifty other people here in my home to play an instrument with. So so she does go in for band, and you know, uh that works out well done, don't you think? I think so. I don't feel that my social side has been stunted at all. Now, that's very much. I had a similar experience growing up too, so I just wanted to hear it from a whole other family, and in my gut I knew I was right all along. You were your right, You're right, stick with it. Thanks for college. Thanks you go back. Okay, Sandy, do we have Cindy there? Hi? Thought he We're real good? How are you? Oh? We're awesome? Great, Hi, Peppery, Hi, Sindy. Really enjoy your input into the videos and your take on the different videos that you're doing. Greatly appreciate it. I've learned so much. And my favorite is your mom's tomatoes too. But I started making and my am just become a staple, so I know it is delicious. So I had one two questions actually for you. But the first one I'd like to ask you is how do you handle like we have seven children, and some of them thought, oh doom and gloom, and but others. So it seems to be really perspective of the person themselves, how they handle what do you you know, what are you afraid of? Or what are you preparing for? And it's not so much that I try to always tell them, it's not so much that we're afraid of something, but we want to be prepared in case there is something that needs to be handled. Or it can be something as simple as a power outage or a whatever, a storm or whatever, or or it could be something major. And I was just wondering how you handled that, how you felt about it. I think, I, well, that's a that's a good question. I think I actually mentioned this the last time cast. Hosted the show. I came in at the end and talked a little. Bit about keeping the positive attitude. I think it's important when you're talking to your kids about, you know, possible scenarios you're prepping for. It's good to inform them why they're putting all this time and energy into into prepping. But I think more focused on the great benefits they get from prepping. And I think I try to you know, well. It's good to know. It's not good to focus, right, it's it's good. It's good to have that in the back of my mind that you know, this is this is a you know, an important event that could possibly happen. But I think, you know, more more focus on the positive side and the benefits you get from prepping rather than the negative motives. Right. Well, I mean that's like I said, you know, we have seven children and they're all still different and an individual, but it really seemed to be more the high'll outlook on life. How they took that, And I was just curious if that was because of how we handle the desk parancer, if that was just how life is, you know. And my other question was what's your favorite in the garden? What do you like to do best? Like? Do you like berries, do you like trees? Do you like the actual tomatoes? Plants? You know, what's your favorite part of gardening? That is a really tough question. Oh my goodness, I don't know. I still really love picking strawberries. I still love blackberries and raspberries and strawberries. Well, I love the other vegetables. I think that, you know, the fruits are what I love the most. Yeah, yeah, so I totally agree. Yeah, it's all a lot of fun. But thank you so much. Hi, Cindy, don't late. Stay on the line and talk to g Man and he'll get he'll get you a book to you. Okay, Oh well, thank you very much. Just appreciate you, guys. Thank you, thank you. Hey, and Emily, I hope you saw my message in the room. I forgot to give you a book before you left. So if you would call back in and talk to g Man, we'll get a book to you. Okay, Emily, are you still here? Where is she? Oh? I don't know what her name is in the room, but Emily called back in and we'll get a book to you. I didn't mean to, uh, to neglect you. I want you to talk for just a minute. We only have a couple of minutes about the day that you said to your father and me that we had to quit talking about the world situation, the economy, the bad things in the news, all that kind of stuff. Okay, I clearly, you know, I really remember that day, and I think it was just a bit of you know, overactiveness and prepping, because you know, once once we jumped in, we jumped in you know, you know, with you know, everything we had, I mean, we were into prepping and I kind of, you know, just had to say to them, I know the importance of this situation. We've got to relax a little bit. I mean, this is taking over every aspect of our lives. It's affecting our moods, you know, our family, you know, togetherness. And I think that once we started, you know, kind of backing off checking the news. I mean, while it's important to. Stay informed, that we weren't you know, completely on it all the time. I think it's it. It changed us. I think we got a lot happier, we got a lot closer as a family, and it was actually easier to prep that we you know that now that we weren't worried so much all the time. Yeah, And I will tell you along around that time, we instituted the nine o'clock you have to be in your room. It doesn't mean that you have to be sleeping. You can be reading a book, could be working on the competer, you could be do whatever. But at nine o'clock you need to be in your room. And I will tell you that part of that was so that Daddy and I could still talk about those things that we needed to talk about that might worry or concern you, but you didn't have to hear it. So I don't know whether you know that or not, but no, but at nine o'clock when you go to your room to do your own thing for an hour before you go to bed, if there's something like that we need to talk about that might be worrisome from a young person, then we do it when you're not around. So how about that? Oh? Well, hey that lord? I like that. Okay, let's see how jimy and where am I? One more minute? One more minute? You have been a fun guest. Thank you very much. You've been a fun host. There you go. I hope you can tell that we love being together. You can. You can still be the parent and have great fun with your kid, and if you raise them right, they can be your your best friend for a long long time, and I hope it stays that way. I just can't say enough about how much I appreciate this kid and what she does for me. I had her two months before my forty third birthday, so she's got an old mom and it's hard to keep up with her. But I'm doing my best. I look like the Fred Flintstone in the car, the Stone car running my feet ninety miles an hour. So we're about to get kicked off here again, Emily. If you'll call in and talk to g Man, he'll try to get a book to you. I hope you've enjoyed the show, and let me see her. We at the fifty eight mark, we are, I'm out of here and until next time, this is cass Cradle and Preferree. Today's broadcast has come to you through the courtesy of the Prepper Broadcasting Network. 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