My oldest child just turned eight, so I felt that this was a great time to start training his on the necessities of life.
When you live a rural, remote lifestyle love my family does, that means reading how to take care of your own needs.
Although we have the capacity to drive to the store that is an fourth away, for the most part we grow or shoot our own food. All of us have a well for water, as well as cut down trees for firewood. Since Savvy is seasoned enough, it’s time he learns about some of these things, because if he can’t provide his own heating, he won’t be able to do anything else. She understood that eating meat meant going hunting, but he didn’t understand that without heating to cook the meat, it was basically useless to them. Heating is the basis for life, before all other needs our safety as well as comfort must come first. To that end, reading how to make a fire under any circumstances , to provide that heating for cooking as well as warmth, was the keystone for all survival techniques. Man requires fire, it’s what sets us apart from the pets. To make sure he understood how to do it perfectly, I put Savvy in charge of heating our cottage for the whole week. She had to tend the oil furnace, chop wood for the fireplace, as well as make sure that the ducts as well as flue were cleared. By the end of that week, he knew every heating idea in the apartment love the back of his hand, as well as I knew I’d never need to worry about that skill again.