5 Survival Skills Your Kids Should Know Before They Turn 12!
January 12, 2012
When our son was about 12, a fellow homeschool dad did a Survival Camp. They met once a week for 6 weeks and learned some very basic survival skills. They learned how to build a basic shelter in the woods, how to skin a fish, how to coat matches to keep them dry, how to start a fire without matches, how to cook over an open fire, how to purify water and more. It was a great time for them!
As you prepare your kids for real life do they have basic survival skills in case they were lost or stranded? If you can’t teach the skills, find someone that can. Perhaps several families could go in together and do a Survival Camp?
What would your list of most needful skills be? Make it a priority to learn them, you never know when you may need them.
Here is some good food for thought.
Topics: Boys!, Resourcefulness | 3 Comments »
Comments (3)
A nice guy, but really, couldn’t that whole video be boiled down into 5 bullet points? Doesn’t really tell me anything I don’t already know.
Thank you for sharing this. He’s right – we can expect so much more out of our chidden than our culture does. Not only are our kids capable, but also they are designed to be productive contributing individuals. If we recognize that then I think the teen years are much smoother. Thankfully my 12 yo son already has 4 1/2 of these 5 skills, but it reinforced that we do need to find an opportunity for him to learn to hunt. Good stuff to be reminded of, especially with the younger children coming up.
thank you!