[Crazy_Dad]

Wow, at last people who are thinking and talking sense.
Apart from a few idiots. There are some genuine expressions and sound wisdom to be had in this thread.

I'm in Australia, and I swear I can smell the coming storm.
I will start preparing my kids as best as I can, which is difficult. They don't live with me. I have a new wife and baby on the way.

My boys mother left me for doom saying, I also suffered from depression. I could see this coming for over 10 years(I quit Environmental management 12 years ago after talking to mining/oil/gas industry types - no hope to overcome the system) My new wife has a greater understanding, although I think I need to be gentle in explaining PO.

I will just start learning what I need to know. I started archery a few weeks ago. Then I will teach my wife and kids.

When should I plan to evacuate the kids? Thats my biggest dilemma. Hopefully their mother will wake up soon. She listens a bit more these days - she is not too dumb to see the signs now.

Good luck and go in peace.

[Bigfoot3814]

If this whole thing comes about, I personally see myself hopping freight trains and bumming around western towns.

[ReverseEngineer]

Teach your children to be strong, to be tough, to be fearless. Don't allow them to be lazy, don't countenance disrespect, make them accountable for their actions.

You might be able to insulate them for a while here, but not for long. Best to get to the task now of hardening them for the trials that will come before them.

Communicate NO FEAR. Be as strong as you can be for them. Save As Many as you Can.

Remember though, you CANNOT save them all. If you are the Mother in the Tsunami and you have 2 in your grasp, you might just have to let one go, elsewise you all will drown. Steel yourself for the moment you have to make that CHOICE. It will come.

Reverse Engineer

[Bigfoot3814]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', 'T')each your children to be strong, to be tough, to be fearless. Don't allow them to be lazy, don't countenance disrespect, make them accountable for their actions.

[Narz]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Bigfoot3814', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', 'T')each your children to be strong, to be tough, to be fearless. Don't allow them to be lazy, don't countenance disrespect, make them accountable for their actions.

[Bigfoot3814]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Narz', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Bigfoot3814', '
')Never mind the end of the world as we know it, you ought to be doing that stuff anyway.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '-') No TV, internet, CD players, iPods

[Crazy_Dad]

I think the internet is a wonderful thing. I came here for guidance and information for example.

I think as energy get more expensive, the internet will begin to die off. Much like roundup used on plants. The extremities will go first.

I have such a huge wealth of data on a 2TB SAN device, but no way to preserve it beyond the energey crisis.

I plan to allow for a solar setup to run my PC and SAN. Even though I know my motherboard will crap out sooner or later - hopefully my community(Yet to be developed) will learn enough to survive.

My kids think the internet is like tap water. I'll be just as sorry as them to see it go.

[ReverseEngineer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Narz', '
')Except I think "fearless" is unrealistic and undesirable. One should just try to teach (and cultivate within oneself) the art of differetiating true fear (the "sixth sense" that may well save your life in an emergency) from panic & irrationality & general franticness (which is more likely to get you killed or hurt than to save you).

True fear is your ally. False fear is the enemy, this is the fear people always talk about overcoming.

[bratticus]

The children are too good for what will come.
[flash width=425 height=344]http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/ZjS-IABrZ_M[/flash]

[patience]

We taught our kids to think critically, how to use good judgement, and how to provide for themselves, among other things. We exposed them to the widest variety of people and lifestyles we possibly could. We exposed them to the world of nature and let them go as far as they wanted with their own ideas. We also taught them to never push their physical abilities to the point of risking injury. They are 40 and 42 years old now, and I am still convinced we did it right.

I believe that physical competition is just another manifestation of the elementary school game of "mine is bigger than yours", seen throughout our debased society. I can see no reason that such competition exists, beyond preparation for war, another fatal flaw of humanity.

I think of "professional" sports as being the most contra-social of entertainments. If young people were taught cooperation to achieve goals, how much more benign would our world be? Rather than how to knock down your football opponent with a bone-crushing thud, that regularly results in outrageous medical bills, and ruined young lives. To crown this achievement, we have old Joe Quarterback on the pain reliever commercial, touting its' benefits! But, the Roman Circuses must go on, right?

[Lord_Garth]

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')Preparing your children

[medicvet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')f you are the Mother in the Tsunami and you have 2 in your grasp, you might just have to let one go, elsewise you all will drown.