Take your summer bucket list for kids up a notch – preparedness style! Learn to use everyday summer activities and develop a preparedness mindset for kids! There’s 104 days of summer vacation …. and what are you going to do to fill your kids’ buckets full of memories this summer? There is always so much […]
DIY Period Emergency Kit for Girls
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Emergencies aren’t just about localized weather events or job losses, but can be much more personal. And what’s more personal to a girl than her period? Consider a DIY Period Emergency Kit for your preteens to have at stored in her locker or backpack for just such times. I bet many of us can say that puberty […]
How to Dress for Extreme Weather
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I’m excited to share that I’ve written another post for The Allstate Blog on how to dress for extreme weather. Link is at the bottom of the post. And here are few extra ideas on how to dress kids in mild to harsh weather to make sure they’re taken care of, too! Tips to help kids […]
10 Tool Safety Tips for Kids
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Do you remember working on house or car projects with your father growing up? Were you an apprentice or were you the fetcher? Did you sit and watch and hand him an occasional tool or were you in there doing it with him? (BTW, this also works for Moms – whether you were the sole […]
8 Simple Rules for My Teenage Driver
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Being prepared isn’t just about big emergencies but for everyday life, too! In fact, it’s about our everyday life that is about to change drastically in our household. You see, our oldest son is about to start driving. As a mom, I’m torn. YAY! Someone else can run the small errands or take a turn […]
7 Reasons to Take Your Kids Fishing
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7 Reasons to Take Your Kids Fishing Gets them back to nature Admit it. Your kids probably spend way too much time in front of electronics when they get home from school until they go to bed. Or at least you wish they spent even less time than they actually do. And just because you […]
Emergency ID Cards – Free Download
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Does your family have emergency ID cards in your emergency bags or in school backpacks? Download these free printables to include in all of your emergency bags! In the event of an emergency when you are not readily available to your child, do they have anything that they carry that lets rescue workers know anything […]
Kids in the Kitchen: Pizza Bar
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How do you do a quick, easy, inexpensive, healthy lunch for a bunch of kids on the fly? A Pizza Bar! In our continuing series of Getting Our Kids in the Kitchen, we focus on teaching kids self-sufficiency skills by learning the virtues of preparing and cooking meals on their own. Not only will they […]
Make Emergency Preparedness Fun for Kids with Phineas and Ferb
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I’m an advocate of introducing your children to emergency preparedness early. Not only by teaching them how to become self-sufficient with cleaning, cooking, etc., but in specific emergency preparedness matters. This weekend, my family and I finally got to sit down and watch one of our favorite shows for kids (shhh…we watch it when the […]
I Saw It for You: How I Live Now Movie Review
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Typically, movies about post-societal breakdowns are geared towards grown ups, but there have been quite a few movies coming out, lately, geared to the dystopian-loving young adult crowds. This one never made it to my radar in book form or at the theater until I saw it on Netflix not long ago. Daisy is an […]