Prepared- Create a Football First Aid Kit for Your Kid’s Game

Today’s lesson…Create a Football First Aid Kit for Your Kid’s Game When the whistle blows, be the calm in the chaos. Let’s be honest. Saturday mornings on the sidelines aren’t always sunshine and orange slices. Between cleats flying, tackles that go too far, and that one kid who insists on diving for every ball, someone’s going …

Today’s lesson…How Can You Prepare Your Daughters for Danger?

Sign up to receive the weekly lessons plus extra goodies: http://eepurl.com/imZrrg First off…never underestimate the power a Prepared Dad can have on his daughter! Most of my Prepared lessons will focus on hard skills and actual physical things you can have or do to be a Prepared Dad. This one is just a little different. This …

Today’s lesson…What do you do if there’s an emergency at school?

This is a critically important subject, as it involves our kids. There’s a lot of danger and lax behavior we’ll accept with ourselves, but when it comes to our kids, our senses and worry buttons are on hyper-alert status. And rightly so. *If you’re a homeschool parent, read on, because this applies to your kids …

Officials asking about your homeschooled kids? Here’s what to do… 👮

I’m pretty up on doing homeschool after several decades at it…or at least I thought I was. I thought my record-keeping and attention to the requirements was bulletproof until an outsider questioned it. My oldest kid joined the Marines last week. They had questions about curriculum, dates, etc. Not that I did anything wrong, but …

Are you a sheep, sheepdog, or Benevolent Wolf?

Are you a sheep, sheepdog, or Benevolent Wolf? When SHTF, do you protect others, cower, or attack? The notion of these labels goes back to Lt. Col. Dave Grossman. He defined people into the following categories: Sheep– People who need to be protected and can only hurt one another by accident. The vast majority of the population. …

Top 5 Stress-Busters for Moms of Boys

Here’s another post from my friend Jenna for the Parenting section, also known by some as Corrupting Our Youth, although I prefer something along the lines of Influencing Free Range Children. She’s kind of become the resident mom-author here at apocalypse central. If you think life is stressful now, think about what it’ll be like …