My oldest daughter just turned eight, so I felt that this was a enjoyable time to beginning training her on the necessities of life.
When you live a rural, remote lifestyle enjoy our family does, that means studying how to take care of your own needs.
Although every one of us have the capacity to drive to the store that is an minute away, for the most area every one of us grow or shoot our own food. We have a well for water, plus break down trees for firewood. Since Savvy is outdated enough, it’s time she learns about some of these things, because if she can’t supply her own heating, she won’t be able to do anything else. She understood that eating meat meant going hunting, however she didn’t understand that separate from heating to cook the meat, it was basically useless to them, heating is the basis for life, before all other needs our safety plus comfort must come first. To that end, studying how to make a fire under any circumstances , to supply that heating for cooking plus warmth, was the keystone for all survival techniques. Man requires fire, it’s what sets us apart from the animals. To make sure she understood how to do it perfectly, I put Savvy in charge of heating our lake house for the whole week. She had to tend the oil furnace, cut wood for the fireplace, plus make sure that the ducts plus flue were cleared. By the end of that week, she knew every gas furnace in the home enjoy the back of her hand, plus I knew I’d never need to worry about that skill again.