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4 Ways to Keep Your Family Involved With Prepping
One of the most common problems that newer preppers run into doesn’t have anything to do with food storage, ammo or medical supplies. The problem many new preppers have is that even the most practical survivalists will still usually meet resistance from friends and family members when discussing preparedness for the first time.
Often times when newer preppers try to talk to their family about preparedness they’re met with half-hearted agreements at best and ignored or ridiculed at worst. While most of us understand the practical necessity to prep, it’s not always easy to explain that to other people in a way that will really get through to them in the way it got through to you.
Today we’ll be going over 4 tips that you can use to talk to your family about the importance of practical prepping and how you can convince them to turn preparedness into a family activity.
Don’t scare them
Even if you feel that the zombie apocalypse is only days away, that doesn’t mean that your family does (or should) share your fears. For some people, prepping has to provide a real, practical benefit that they can see now in order for them to take action.
Using fear simply doesn’t work and will even make them less likely to help you prep. Instead of focusing on zombies, pandemics and EMP’s you should focus these conversations on scenarios that are much more likely like tornadoes, winter storms and hurricanes.
Even if you truly do believe that one of the Hollywood disaster scenarios is coming soon, if you focus your preparations on natural disasters, it’s likely that you’ll be just as prepared if the worst does happen.
Compromise
Prepping as a family is all about compromises. There is no #1 authority on prepping out there. Not me, not you, and not the dozens of other popular preparedness gurus out there. None of us really knows what tomorrow will bring or what supplies, skills or mindset will be required to weather the next big disaster.
All of us are honestly just using educated guesses. Anyone that tells you different is…CONTINUED HERE
