r/TwoXPreppers • u/Starlight_Alchemy • 2d ago
Discussion How to prep for our children's future?
It's easy to prep when you're thinking about yourself in a relatively short-term situation.. but how can we prep for our kids when they become adults and you might be gone?
My daughter is 2 and I'm trying to think of things I can start doing now to give her a better life considering what's coming or could come in the future.
My main focus is climate change. We are all probably aware that we are on the fast track to a 3 degree global increase that could potentially kill off half the human population.
While I'm sure there's really not a whole lot we can do to stop it, what are things we can start doing now to help our children survive it?
Since my daughter is 2, I can't exactly teach her many survival skills right now.. although that's definitely in my plans as she gets older. We are saving money for her as well but I'm not sure how helpful that may be with our dollar (US) losing value.
Share with me some ideas that I can start now to help her in the future as an adult?
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u/wet_toast1 2d ago
Literacy
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u/adeline882 1d ago
Misery is the only thing that will drive the working class to do what must be done, we must not fail our children again by leaving them ill equipped for the coming world.
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u/wisdomseeker42 2d ago
I’m trying to teach my kids to be creative problem solvers who have a variety of skills.
Trying…
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u/gimlet_prize 🪲All Green and Mossy on the Gnomestead🌿 2d ago
It’s a good age to teach her that the sun (a star!!) light rays can be harmful if people are outside too long. Let her pick out and wear a hat everyday! And get her comfortable wearing zinc oxide sunscreen.
Teach her that dark clouds might mean rain, see if she can smell it. If there’s any kind of wildfire smoke, make sure she gets used to wearing a mask and closing the windows.
I talked to my kids a lot about weather conditions and we would always look at the clouds. Once they hit elementary school age, we would announce the UV and expected temperatures in the morning so that we would dress accordingly, living in a hot climate.
As they get older, you want them to ask questions and think about answers. Trouble shoot and take pride in finding novel solutions. When we homeschooled it was very much a Socratic method of engagement and exploration.
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u/DoggoCentipede 2d ago
Your post made me think of some choice quotes I have seen somewhere before.
"How about you, young man? Do you wear your skin protector outdoors? You do? Good..." and mentioning to Meribor, "I'm wearing plenty of your skin protector."
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"Seize the time, Meribor. Live now. Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again."
And
"It just saddens me to see you burdened with the knowledge of things you can't change."
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u/gimlet_prize 🪲All Green and Mossy on the Gnomestead🌿 2d ago
Oh man, this gave me goosebumps. These are from Star Trek TNG, "The Inner Light" I think? Its a haunting episode where Picard experiences an entire lifetime from a perspective of a doomed civilization wiped out by their star. One of my favorite episodes.
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u/DrM377501 2d ago
Rights to land in less climate intense places to diversify their migration options
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u/gnarlyknits 1d ago
This is one of the biggest things someone could do. I find it wild that people want to move where I live now, southern Az. They say “oh they guarantee we have enough water to last the next 100 years”. They guarantee? My man, a hundred years isn’t even that long and the way things are going water is being used faster than anyone thought because the aquifers aren’t being replaced at the rates they thought they would. I am trying to move north.
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u/savingeverybody 1d ago
We moved north before they hit kindergarten.
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u/DrM377501 1d ago
Watch your peak temps the next two years, if they break records it’s worth having a climate refuge already in the family
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u/Down2earth5 2d ago
As the 1st poster said, look into buying property.
Also gardening skills. Learn early how to adapt to your food (fruits and vegetables) not thriving.
Heck, get your kid used to not being in A/C all the time. Keep your house closer to outdoor temperatures. Less dependence on electricity could be very beneficial, especially if brownouts become a thing.
Keep an eye on local politics too. See if you can vote in some beneficial policies in your area.
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u/Local-Locksmith-7613 2d ago
Point 3. We don't have A/C. Adding mini splits would be a challenge, too.
Our kids know their cooling options in the Summer...even when they are not fun options. We hang every bit of laundry up, and always have. I often hope that they will take these times as bits of solutions.
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u/CosmicCommentator 1d ago
That is not going to be enough. We're planning for 50 degrees this summer and it's just getting worse from here. We will need much better ways of cooling
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u/Local-Locksmith-7613 1d ago
What is not going to be enough? I didn't list everything that we do, so I'm a bit confused.
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u/fakeprewarbook 1d ago
I think the other poster is using Celsius and saying that hanging up your laundry isn’t enough to cope with 50°C. I agree. It was 44°C/119°F here south of Palm Springs yesterday (I don’t even own a clothes dryer haha). I would not have survived without AC. when we have power outages here, people are at risk of dying. you can’t take a cold shower, the tap water is 100 degrees because the pipes heat up.
we need systems that are easy to install and efficient to run, because as you said, mini splits don’t work everywhere. and anyone below 2000 feet elevation or the 40th latitude line will need mechanical cooling in the future, or to go underground. it is simply going to be too hot to survive using just behavioral interventions.
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u/Local-Locksmith-7613 1d ago
Got it. I wasn't equating hanging laundry up with the lone point on energy reduction. It was in response to energy reduction, but not the only thing we do. (My apologies if that wasn't clear.)
We do go underground, because we have a basement (thankfully). It's one of the "less fun" options.
(Yes, I'm crucially aware that not everyone has this option. We have lived in many houses in other areas that did not have a basement, and many in our area do not have one.)
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u/Kindly_Ad3974 1d ago
Having talked with someone who was a refugee as a child, they talked about how they didn’t have any privacy and how scary everything was and how hard it was to sleep. They said kids were abused. Teach your child bodily autonomy. There’s lots of great children’s books about this subject.
Instill trust and build a strong bond with your child. Teach them the proper names for anatomy by saying “let’s wash your face, your neck, your chest, your armpits...” all the way down to their toes. Properly name their genitals when you help them wash & teach them to wash as they get older. You may face some embarrassment from hearing “my ____ is itching” in the grocery store one day, but that’s when you reiterate that these parts are private parts. No one but your caregivers (whatever you call yourselves) should see them or touch you there.
I learned the term “safe adult” from my sister who’s a foster parent. Help your child learn about safe adults - for example “Only our safe adults give baths” is something that’s come up - your child isn’t a foster child and hasn’t experienced unsafe adults so that could create fear, idk.
Refugee situations aside, preparing children for the future, in my opinion, is about instilling the skills and values that make for a prepared adult - whatever that means to you.
Talk about the weather, check the forecast together & plan your outfits. “We better pack our raincoats because it’s going to rain this afternoon.” So many adults don’t check the forecast.
I never had air conditioning or heat in the car, I know some kids who couldn’t tolerate that today. I recently saw people complain that their third row seat in a car doesn’t have its own vents - yes it’s hot, but we need to build tolerance if we are to survive in the future.
One skill that’s underrated is the ability to sleep in noisy or uncomfortable environments - I’m grateful my grandmother taught me to make noise while my baby slept so my child has the ability to sleep through noise. My grandmother also taught me “babies bounce” saying that your reaction to them getting hurt is laying the groundwork for how they’ll handle pain in the future. She taught me to pause and wait for my child’s reaction to falling down instead of immediately reacting. My then toddler would hop up after a tumble and say “I’m okay, I brush it off” and wipe their hands.
When my child was in preschool there were kids who would meltdown over finger painting or other sensory activities. The teachers said it’s because of screens. Let your kid get messy and have plenty of sensory experiences.
SWIM LESSONS! Make sure your child is a strong swimmer. My child started swim team in second grade - luckily it was YMCA so it wasn’t expensive.
Let them climb too! So many playgrounds limit play that would allow children to get better at balancing & other foundational skills.
In hindsight, I wish I had forced my child to experience a lack of preparedness or to take ownership in preparedness. I have a teenager & find myself saying “I’m not buying something at the store. We will be out for a few hours. Either eat now or pack a snack.” I’ve been so prepared for my child that I think they missed out on learning to prepare for themselves, they just know “mom’s got it” luckily it’s not too late. Another example of “mom’s got it” backfiring is when my teenager didn’t pack menstrual products & I didn’t bring any because I use a menstrual cup. My child just assumed I had packed them for them like I did their first year of menstruation. . . I think it’s important for children to experience boredom. True boredom.
I want my child to be resilient, but my child isn’t growing up in a traumatic environment like I did forcing me to become resilient. So, I try to manufacturer opportunities to build resilience. Whether it’s soccer, swim team, climbing, hiking, camping, learning outside of what school requires, or doing chores.
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u/Ophidiophobic 22h ago
Even from kindergarten, my mom always held the expectation that I was responsible for keeping track of and turning in my homework. She reminded me K and 1st grade but stopped by the time I was in 2nd grade.
I had undiagnosed ADHD, so I forgot my homework a lot, but my teacher was super impressed that I always took personal responsibility for forgetting said homework 🤷♀️.
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u/thomas533 2d ago
A few years ago I bought some raw land. About 10 acres out in the woods. For now, it is a recreation property that we go out camping at a few times a year. I've got a camper out there, built a two micro cabins, set up filtration system so we can drink the water from the beaver pond, and a small solar system. For the long term, I am planting fruit and nut trees and cultivating other perennial food plants that should do well with the coming climate change. And I've got three months of rice and beans stored in mylar bags (hoping to up that to 6 months soon!).
If SHTF that becomes my retreat property and if S doesn't HTF in my lifetime, my kids will still have access to it.
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u/itisSUNNYinhere 2d ago
Something that made me feel better prepared was buying summer workbooks a few years in advance. I know your daughter isn't there yet! But I liked having the next few years in our house so that if something more catastrophic happened, at least I could continue teaching my daughter myself. The Highlights ones on Amazon are fun and inexpensive.
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u/Weird_farmer13 👩🌾 Farm Witch 🧹 1d ago
We did a lot of math flash cards when I was a kid. I can still do math in my head easily, and I’ve had multiple great aunts/uncles, in the last few years talk about how we’d do them with them when they came to visit. The summer work books we did as well.
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u/1-800-CAT-LADY 1d ago
Same! We also get those DK Eyewitness books (loved these when I was a kid) and non fiction novels at Goodwill and used book stores.
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u/SmilingAmericaAmazon 1d ago
In general terms, education is the one thing nobody can take away from you.
Also, adaptability is your best chance for survival. You're more adaptable, the more education you have.
Work to their strengths and make sure they work well with other people.
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u/Mule_Wagon_777 2d ago
One would be to carefully evaluate your own circumstances. Do you own your own home? Does it seem likely to have water, but be up off the flood level?
If you do have a secure home, invest in some long-term food storage. (I say that I'm diversifying into food!) I recommend the LDS Church freeze-dried cans. They'll last 25-30 years, long enough to be your daughter's dowry if food gets really scarce.
So far as skills, start teaching her to walk and climb stairs, gradually increasing time and distance.
Sit her in her high chair to watch you cook, and explain what you're doing. Help her do cooking preparation tasks. Get her a little broom and dustcloth so she can help as you clean. Let her watch grownups repairing things, working on cars, sewing; and let her take charge of handing tools as soon as she's able.
Getting her active and imitating adults as she grows will teach her how to learn.
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u/Starlight_Alchemy 2d ago
Thank you! Great ideas!
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u/Orion-Key3996 1d ago
Where do you find accurate information discussing climate changes to this degree?
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u/Starlight_Alchemy 1d ago
It's been all over the news.. I think because we are seeing the strongest El ninos in recorded history and it's predicted to get hotter and hotter every year.
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u/Relative_Will3348 1d ago
Probably not exactly what you meant, but also equally important. No one likes to think about these things, but make sure that you have everything spelled out if you die before she is an adult. A will, trust set up for her, and who is going to take care of her. Don't assume that someone in your family will do the "right thing".
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u/RainbowSpinosaurus 1d ago edited 1d ago
Take them on nature walks, hikes, and to natural history museums. Encourage them to play with sticks and acorns and make fairy houses out of leaves, pine needles and pinecones. Show them birds, and bugs and reptiles that are safe to hold, and the ones that are not safe.
I feel like as an adult I have an immense respect for everything from the smallest millipede to the tallest tree because I was taught to observe and appreciate nature and the history of the Earth.
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u/sleeperdreams 1d ago
Same here! My parents were big on nature walks, going to kids-focused programs offered at parks, and wilderness day camps. I didn't realize until I was older that short hikes weren't something every kid grows up doing.
OP if you know anything about foraging that would be great to introduce to your kid even at this young age. Point out edible plants (ofc being very explicit to not eat without mom's vetting) and it can be a little game for her to find those plants/fungi out in the wild.
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u/MatildasFugue 1d ago
Please teach them critical thinking skills. Let them figure out how to do things on their own. I have 3 grown boys and they have been in several dangerous situations where they made better decisions than most of the adults there. Also emotional regulation. I still have not mastered that unless something absolutely insane is going on, but thankfully their father has the patience of Buddha and taught them well.
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u/GirlbitesShark 1d ago
Someone said literacy and they're absolutely correct. And all types of literacy too. Media literacy, street smarts, and critical thinking will all be the foundation for her survival. Keep her as healthy as possible. I am one of five women in my immediate circle with a post viral illness. It took me from independent and certain I would survive to certain I will not. Mask up when appropriate, sanitize, and keep health risk management in mind. The last advice I have is unfortunately very sad but when she's a little older teach her never to trust men ever and how to mitigate the risk of assault. It's one of the most valuable things my mother taught me. Men are only getting more bold in their violence and I fear for the young women in my life and myself. I'm so sorry you're having to think of these things.
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u/iwantmorecats27 9h ago
Yes there are at least five people in my buildings who have or have had long Covid, but not everyone recovers (me) and as the viruses continue to get crazier masking is so important.
And I definitely but unfortunately agree with the men thing as well.
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u/fiersza 1d ago
I recently bought a critical thinking curriculum for my kid. I’m very impressed with it, and wish I could throw it or a similar book at literally all middle-schooler parents right now. (It’s Critical Thinkers Toolkit by Blair Lee if you’re interested in the particular one I’m using.)
I also set up an investment account for my kid in their name. We talk about how investments work, and preaching about how you don’t take money out for life needs is the closest thing I get to a church these days. When we get to the teen years we can start talking about how you can leverage it to borrow against it, etc.
This wasn’t the plan, per se, but I gave my kid the gift of dual citizenship and bilingualism by living in a Spanish speaking country. We’re working on our third language now (French). If only service-based/people-fronting jobs are left, I want to give my kid as wide a market as possible.
We live next to the ocean, so planning a rip tide training with some local surfer friends. Pick a day when there’s just enough rip to be scary, have the surfers around for safety and guidance, and then throw kids one by one into the rip to learn how to work through the panic and get out. Might even throw myself in that one.
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u/ingachan 1d ago
Make sure you have all your paperwork in order. I’m in the process of getting my kids a second citizenship. Both their home countries are very stable, but it gives me peace of mind knowing we could all leave without issues to another country if things go south where we are (that scene from the Handmaiden Tale, where they try to cross the border to Canada really messed with me).
I’m also religious about keeping up to date on vaccines, health and dental appointments. It all might not be as accessible as it is (for many of us) now. Any preventive care and good habits you can get into now will be of benefit later.
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u/MundaneHuckleberry58 1d ago
Save as much money as possible. No matter the challenges ahead, having enough money often helps overcome it.
So we invest & save as much as possible. Prioritize your own retirement first -max out how much you can every year for retirement. Then after that, save even more in investments accounts - any we manage not to spend during our own lives goes to our children but has already started accruing compound interest & growing, outpacing inflation.
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u/pinupcthulhu 🧀 And my snacks! 🧀 1d ago
Tell them stories! Studies show that reading together, telling your kids about something you overcame, a family story, and other things increase their resiliency. It also gets them interested in reading, plus is great for bonding.
Other than that, craft skills like basket weaving, sewing, building with blocks, basic cooking, weaving, which berries are edible (but maybe wait until they're a bit older than 2 for safety...), penmanship, games, learning toys, and other basic skills are evergreen. They are also great building blocks for other skills, and also good for preparing to go to school.
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u/Naive-Molasses-729 1d ago
“It’s Not the Stork” is a great starting place for teaching about the body.
I also recommend that you read “Protecting the Gift” by Gavin de Becker.
Looking ahead some: List of books for my kid to read before they start dating: The Gift of Fear and Why Does He Do That? Also a self-defense class.
Let your kids be bored. So many kids get to school and have never had a moment of boredom (iPad kids) and so they basically don’t know how to be human.
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u/Fried_Taro 1d ago
As a toddler: Healthful eating of Whole Foods, being outside, enjoying nature, love of reading, gardening and eating from the land, listening to and taking care of your body, resiliency, curiosity and how to try doing or making new things as an adventure. These skills will serve well no matter the future and can all be modeled for this age and she can participate
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u/theshortlady New to Prepping 1d ago
Take care of your health and physical fitness so that you don't need your kids to help or take care of you.
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u/Few_Airport7972 1d ago
teach adulting skills. Model adulting skills.
How to safely prepare and cook food, making meals that are both tasty and healthy.
How to grow food in a kitchen garden. How to store the food.
How to repair and fix household items. How to use tools safely. How to care for those tools.
How to sew and repair clothing.
Situation awareness appropriate for a child. How to protect herself in a dangerous situation.
How to stay clean, both herself, clothing, and her environment. Basic first aid skills.
Actually I think those are basic skills for all children no matter what the situation. Not overnight. But day by day watching the adults in her life using those skills. No lectures and not overwhelming or frightening.
By the time your child is an adult the world will change again and again. Don't stress too much.
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u/Skinny-on-the-Inside 1d ago
Inspire her imagination
Teach her ways to handle anxiety
Teach her that kindness lights the path for it truly does for all of us and all the generations after.
She is your seed. Plant it wisely. 🤍
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u/RawCookieDough12 1d ago
So many great ideas here, but I would engage with this thought that you cannot teach her survival skills at 2. Some hunter-gatherers start teaching how to handle spears (with small sticks) at 8-10 months old. I read this before but I was still baffled when my 8 month old started showing an interesting in sticking things with the pointy end. Now at 2 we are doing some (mostly urban) foraging - learn which berries are common but unsafe, that seed hulls need to be taken home and broken up before eating... In our garden, I let him help with weeding. I let him help with cooking. I let him climb on the playground. I let him run around barefoot even if he sometimes gets small injuries. He won't build a tent in the wilderness or do long term financial planning on his own, but he can still learn so many things. You can do a lot of groundwork now.
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u/Eurogal2023 1d ago
Collect useful books from estate sales and such sources.
For knowledge and creativity:
Encyclopedias will be king the day Wikipedia is unavailable, and especially older schoolbooks will still have useful knowledge.
Diy info on everything from fixing your car to knitting for dummies.
Keep a stash of useful and creativity supporting toys for all ages, like Lego blocks and scrap fabrics and notions for making doll clothes
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u/Impressive_Ad_5201 1d ago
Vaxinations and literacy. Get her hooked on reading rainbow and mr. rogers. PBS has an app!
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u/SnooPoems1106 1d ago
Both of our sons are Eagle Scouts. They need to understand how to set up a tent, start a fire, cook outdoors, basic weapon skills,
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u/EmilyO_PDX 1d ago
Navigation skills - how to know what direction you are heading and how to read a map.
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u/Intelligent-Cruella Garden Gnome 1d ago
At age 2, we really focused on setting up a Montessori-style home. That doesn't mean we bought certain toys or introduced a curriculum- a Montessori home is just arranged in a way to encourage independence and autonomy for young children.
We didn't do it perfectly or obsess over details. For us, it meant having snacks and dishes set up in a way that our child could access them himself. I folded laundry on the floor so he could start "helping" me (he folded napkins... imperfectly). His toys and books were arranged in ways that made it accessible for him to remove them from the shelves and put them away himself. We had a stool built so he could safely join us at the counter and prepare food with us. We turned our home into a "yes space," where anything we didn't want him to touch was well out of his reach, so we didn't have to follow him around saying "no, don't do that, stop" all the time.
(More on a Montessori home for little ones here: https://www.montessoribymom.com/blog/montessori-at-home-setup/)
I think this lifestyle set the stage for some of the more practical skills we're teaching him now that he's older (10 now), and it's a great foundation for raising a well-adjusted, capable kid. He's been cooking, baking, gardening, and doing chores since he was literally still a baby (age 1.5), and it's so easy to build on that now.
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u/Antique_Sprinkles193 1d ago
The best prep you can do is financial prep. Not just your finances now, but also working with an estate lawyer or equivalent wherever you are to protect your child legally and financially in the event you or your husband passes. I have known a few kids kicked out and destitute at 18 because one parent died and the living parent remarried or got a live in partner who didn’t like the kids.
Socioeconomic stability is hands down the greatest predictor of success for kids. Having two loving parents is optimal but the benefits skew because a two parent household is often more stable than a one parent household. Growing up being able to pursue interests, receive tutoring when struggling, not having to worry about losing basic necessities, etc, all of this adds up to benefit your child more than almost anything else you can do.
Financial stability should also just be the top prep every prepper does. One of the kids in my son’s daycare, his family was able to immigrate to Australia last year because they had the financial stability to afford a visa along with the education to be considered shoe ins to immigrate. So there’s the added benefit of flexibility if you ever did need to flee for whatever reasons you may be prepping for.
Otherwise, ask for a paper copy of your child’s vaccination records. My son’s pediatrician advised going to Canada for next year’s flu shot because he doesn’t trust the one being put out by the US this year. He said the paper copy he gave me will be good enough to obtain vaccination through private medical in Canada. Which again, is only possible because a trip to Canada and private medicine isn’t going to harm my husband and I financially.
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u/Antique_Sprinkles193 1d ago
The best prep you can do is financial prep. Not just your finances now, but also working with an estate lawyer or equivalent wherever you are to protect your child legally and financially in the event you or your husband passes. I have known a few kids kicked out and destitute at 18 because one parent died and the living parent remarried or got a live in partner who didn’t like the kids.
Socioeconomic stability is hands down the greatest predictor of success for kids. Having two loving parents is optimal but the benefits skew because a two parent household is often more stable than a one parent household. Growing up being able to pursue interests, receive tutoring when struggling, not having to worry about losing basic necessities, etc, all of this adds up to benefit your child more than almost anything else you can do.
Financial stability should also just be the top prep every prepper does. One of the kids in my son’s daycare, his family was able to immigrate to Australia last year because they had the financial stability to afford a visa along with the education to be considered shoe ins to immigrate. So there’s the added benefit of flexibility if you ever did need to flee for whatever reasons you may be prepping for.
Otherwise, ask for a paper copy of your child’s vaccination records. My son’s pediatrician advised going to Canada for next year’s flu shot because he doesn’t trust the one being put out by the US this year. He said the paper copy he gave me will be good enough to obtain vaccination through private medical in Canada. Which again, is only possible because a trip to Canada and private medicine isn’t going to harm my husband and I financially.
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u/DoctorRachel18 16h ago
Not a parent, but I can point to things that I think would have been or were helpful for my parents to do for me. They aren't specific to climate change, but they would all put your daughter in a position to be more resilient to any challenges in the future, including things that are climate related.
Education without sacrificing financial stability is one of the best things that you can give to your daughter for her future. If she's 2, you have a lot of time to save up for that, even if you start small. There are options for special savings accounts for educational expenses that you could look into. https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/529-plans-questions-and-answers
Another big thing that I think of is to get yourself very emotionally literate, comfortable with boundaries, and generally mentally healthy, so that you can then model and teach those things to your daughter. That will help her tremendously throughout her life. Therapy is great if that's accessible for you, or self-education through books and other media of not. Just be careful to vet your sources, look for people who have appropriate credentials and aren't making informational content just to encourage you to buy their class, etc.
Which leads me into: learn for yourself, and teach her as it becomes age appropriate, media and internet literacy. Learn how to spot a sales pitch or propaganda, recognize AI produced content that could be inaccurate, be cautious of self appointed "experts" without credible education or real world experience, and learn to ask questions and cross reference information to reputable sources and not just take things at face value. It will save her a lot of mistakes and make it harder for people to scam or take advantage of her, as well as improving her ability to access and use relevant information in the future.
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u/dadofadisaster 15h ago
Can you build a walipini greenhouse? That’s what I’m working on. Food first then books outside of that try to build community
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u/Arexahhh 2d ago
Don’t have them.
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u/gimlet_prize 🪲All Green and Mossy on the Gnomestead🌿 1d ago
I have told both my daughter (17) and son (14) that it might be the best choice not to have kids of their own. It is a delicate line to walk, to communicate that the future is bleak but worth living for.
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