Adventures in Self Reliance: Kids Prep Minute: Drills

Posted on February 8, 2010
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Another post here about preparing with kids in the house. If you don’t have kids, read it anyway. Maybe it will get your imagination going on something you could do to be better prepared also.

Our topic today is drills, and I’m not talking about your favorite Makita here. I’m talking about practicing your emergency plans to the extent possible. If your kids are anything like mine, I can talk till I’m blue in the face and they amazingly can’t remember a thing I said five minutes later. Physically doing something reinforces what you talked about in their memories. Did mom say go left or right? But if they’ve run the drill and always gone right, there will be no question when the time comes to do it for real.

Drills or “emergency plan practice” also help to work out kinks in your plans you might not have known were even there.

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