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Episode Date: March 18, 2026

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You've just joined the Prepper Broadcasting Network, where we promote self-reliance and independence. The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of the host or their guests. Visit us in the interactive chat room at Prepper Broadcasting.com. From my YouTube channel, I'm also once or twice a month on the Homestead Honey Hour, and I always look forward to it. Tonight I have a special guest. It happens to be my 13-year-old daughter. who we affectionately refer to on YouTube as Prepper A. And she's going to be joining me in just a little bit

talking about how to involve your children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews, well, not just children, teenagers, especially in your preparedness efforts in trying to become self-sufficient and self-reliant and doing all those things we do every day to try to be better prepared. You're going to have to put that back up to your ear because now I guess, a well sound in my ear. Okay. We're trying to get the acoustics worked out here so that we can both be on at the same

time. So it may be a little trial and error here at first. G-Man has listened to the volume levels and said they sound okay. So if anybody gets anything kind of weird sound and be sure and let me know and we'll try to fix it. Before we get into the show, let's go ahead and pay a few bills. G-man has a couple of sponsors. He'd like for you to hear.

from, g-man? All right. Thank you to our sponsors and I hope that you'll check out on our main website page over there to the right. It'll list all of our sponsors. Hope that you can find something that you can use there and if you give them a call or place an order be sure and let them know that you heard about them on the homestead honey hour at prepper broadcasting.com. We'd really appreciate it. Looking at the chat room here, a lot of you are talking about the warm weather and getting things planted. Same thing here. It's just the weather has been beautiful.

Here in central Missouri, it has got up into the 80 degrees the last few days. We're finally going to get some rain tonight, which we desperately need. We're still in drought condition here. The winter snows did not add much to our moisture, so we're really struggling here now. I had a friend over this afternoon who was talking about, she had the well on her form that's only about three or four miles for me, it's just slightly higher

elevation than we are and she said her well had gone dry that so many of the farmers had put in these huge long arms that sprinkled their crops and had been using them and that the well was dry. So that's a little scary.

We're not in a good way here and they're forecasting that the summer is going to be dry as well so I'm not sure what that's going to hold for us here. Yeah, I hope we're first past first frost because Preparay did some planning this week, and I sure hope we're not going to dip out here again. Well, without further ado, let me go ahead and bring my guests on. I am proud.

I have two children. One is a 30-year-old who is on his own, self-reliant down in Texas with a wife and a baby. and is doing just great. I don't talk about him so much because we don't rub shoulders day to day, but I do talk about Preparay, who is still at home, and she is 13 years old, and I think what I'll just let her do is tell her a little more about, tell you a little more about herself. Preparay, welcome to the Homestead Honey Hour.

Thank you very much, Kat. It's awesome to be here. I love the Homestead Honey Hour and the honeies, and it's so cool to be here. You can just call me, Mom. Okay. Thanks, Mom. Okay.

She has been my right-hand person for a long time. If you follow my YouTube channel, you know that she is my videographer, my photographer, my sushi, my famous taste tester. She is well and really and truly. I mean, I know that really strict people say you're not your job. And to be your kid's friend, it's to be their disciplinary and their teacher and all that stuff. But I've got to tell you she really is my best friend. She's homeschooled, so she's here all day.

We're seldom apart, and I wouldn't have it any other way. I don't know how she feels about that. Oh, no, definitely, Mom, you're my best friend. I love being around you. I love cooking in the kitchen with you. I love gardening with you. And I love making YouTube videos with you. Well, I'm glad to hear that.

Why don't you go ahead and give them a little background on yourself? Okay. As you know, I'm Prepar-A. I live in central Missouri. And, well, I guess I could say I had a bit of a rough start to life. I was very, very small when I was born, about three pounds. And at a very young age, my parents decided that I should be homeschooled. And Katz, my mom, quit her job as a corporate daycare director to come home.

I moved from Casey to a rural location when I was about, I'd say, six years old, and we, and mom got a public school teaching position. I went with her to school, and I was in fourth grade, which was actually the room next to hers. Yeah, I liked that a lot. I could keep an eye on you and could hear what the teacher was saying. And I was actually in public school from fourth to seventh grade, and after that, we both left school and decided to come back home. So I'm homeschooled once again.

I skipped two grades, so I'm a 13-year-old in my freshman year of high school. I'm taking two sophomore-level classes this year, and I'm looking forward to, oh, and I'm loving, returning to homeschooling. So I have a lot of hobbies. Some of them aren't quite what you call normal hobbies. I love knife throwing and archery. but I also love fishing and shooting and gardening. I love cooking with my mom and mending clothes. I enjoy running and playing basketball, and I love music.

I play the recorder, piano, auto harp, clarinet, and I enjoy composing music and have even written parts from my high school band. I love animals, especially birds, and I love photographing them especially. Okay. Is that about it, you think? I think so. Okay. She's a bit of a time. boy. If she's wearing jeans and a t-shirt and a baseball hat, lots of times I'll make her go back in a

room and put earrings on, you know it's bad when you go to the subway shop to order a kid's meal and the poor teenage boy behind the counter is staring at your child and I'm like, what is his problem? And he eventually said, do you want a girl's toy? You want a girl's toy? or a boy's toy. This is true. This did actually happen. I said, she's a girl. But she might prefer the boy's toy.

Who knows? So anyway, lots of times my last word I'm walking out the door is go to your room for heaven's sake and get some earrings. At least you'll, you know, some girly-looking earrings. So anyway, we know she'll outgrow that. When she gets all dolled up, she's a beauty, that's for sure. But most often she's in jeans, a t-shirt, and a baby. baseball cap. I think she's let me put a little mascara on her twice as we've dressed up for

something, but she fuses and groans and moans the whole time. It's a bit of a rare occurrence. It is rare, that is true. Okay, so let's talk a little bit. Oh, and you are welcome to call in and ask her questions. She would love to talk to you. And the number is three, four, six, 202.022A. We'll be giving out a few prizes this evening for those of you who call in. You might be interested. If you look on the show page right down below the chat right now, you'll see where it says, Jake and Miller's Big Adventure, a Prepper's book for kids. I have not read this book, but G-Man highly recommends it. It's by Bernie Carr, and it's available at Amazon.com. can look, you can look below the chat for more information there. But if you call in to talk to Preparay or to me, we'd be happy to give a few of those, a couple of those away tonight. Okay, let's just see if there's any. Oh, that's a good question. We were going to talk about that at the end of the show, but we can just talk about it right now. This episode is brought to

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podcast might someday pay for, well, more microphones. Start your show today at spreeker.com. Sprinker, because if you're going to talk to yourself for an hour, you might as well publish it. Dory 519 says, Preparay, what would you like to do in your future? Well, I haven't exactly decided yet, and I think I have some time because I'm still, you know, I'm only 13, but I've looked into horticulture and things in. that of that nature. I'd also consider being a band director as I love music. I mean, there's a lot of possibilities, a lot of things that I can do, and I haven't decided yet. I'm still thinking them all over. I have a friend down in Texas who was a brain surgeon, and I mentioned that one day,

and she started researching brain surgeons, and she thought that was a really cool idea, and then one day all of a sudden she came out of the restroom, and she said, I'm not going to be a brain surgeon. I said, why not? She said, well, because I just pulled one of my teeth and I saw blood and my knees got weak and I felt sick at my stomach. I thought I was going to pass out. So brain surgeon went out the window in one day. Which is kind of funny because I'm fine with, you know, like hunting and fishing and stuff. I can see animal blood.

It's human blood. I don't like. Well, she's got lots of times to decide and she's got lots of options. tell her all the time. The world is her apple. It helps to be smart, and she is, and there's lots of different directions she can go, and we're really hoping that her brains and her talent help get her a nice scholarship. That's our hope for sure.

I don't really care what feel it is just as long as we get the scholarship. That's what I really hope. So keep studying, girlfriend. We'll do. She's taken a couple of challenging courses this year. She's taking a tough biology class that she's loving, and she's taking a really challenging literature class that's focusing on biographies.

How many books do you think y'all's read this year? Oh, goodness. I'd say almost 10, I think. They've read probably 10 complete biographies this year, so she's really been working hard. All right, let's talk a little bit about how to get children and teenagers involved in the self-sufficient lifestyle. Okay?

So let's talk about, I think, a good place to start. And really, if any of you have any questions, we're going to be checking the chat. If you would write your question in red, then I would be able to see it very easily instead of just searching for the question marks on there. And also you're welcome to calling in three, 247.

Oh, I always forget when I go. 347, 202, 0228. Thank you. And G-Man, we'll drop that number in periodically. You're welcome to call in and talk to us. Okay, so let's go back. What are your first memories, or when did you realize that our family might not quite do things

in the way that other families do them? I think that started back when we were still living in Kansas City. I know that we had a fairly large garden in our backyard where we grew tomatoes and squash and, you know, other vegetables. But I think my real first memories were of my strawberry patch. I loved picking strawberries. I think I was probably three years old. Yeah, you were little. I was really little.

And picking strawberries out of there and I'd bring them in the house and I'd put sugar on them and we'd eat them. And I thought that was just the coolest thing ever. It was so great. And then also pruning moms dais. I think that got me more interested in plants and being outdoors and getting my hands in the soil, just enjoying that feeling of planting and harvesting. Yeah, that was one of your jobs, was deadheading the daisies. It was something I could let you do.

I'd sit her in a little chair with a straw hat on with a pair of scissors, and she'd move around that. They were planted around the base of a tree in a circle, and she would with her little scissors deadhead all my daisies, and it didn't really hurt much if she made a mistake, but she didn't. and she did a great job. And I have pictures of you about that same age in the garden, planting with your dad, planting tomatoes.

And we were in the city, and that was probably something you noticed, too. Nobody around us had a garden. We were the only one in our kind of yuppie neighborhood that had dug up the backyard and planted vegetables. I think you're probably right. I don't really remember anybody else around us doing that. I wanted her to like that. I mean, I wanted her to have that experience because I was,

was always in the garden with my grandmother, and I remember how much fun it was. And I don't know if you remember, but I would have little surprises in the garden for you, like, you know, a little gnome tucked under the clomatous or, you know, a little deer laying down. I had all kind of little, you know, little dragonflies. Do you remember those? I remember that. I remember seeing, you know, little deer statues. And I remember how fun it was to, you know, try and find those and discovering them. That's great. That's great. That's great. Of course, you always had a love of nature. We had a screened-in-back porch that we called the treehouse because it was on the second level, right,

tucked up in a big oak tree, and she was always talking about the bees and the birds and the squirrels chasing each other around the trees. So we fostered a love of nature very early in you, I hope. Definitely. I know we have family home videos of me sitting out in that tree house, watching all the squirrels run in the trees and watching them run up and down the trunks. And I remember that even then that I loved how the air felt outside, how cool the air felt when I stepped out of the house

and how all the green grass looked and the beautiful flowers. I knew then that I loved it. Okay, I see two questions in the chat room. Preparay, what is your favorite or least favorite? repertoire. I know what she's going to say for least favorite because we were just kind of talking about something like that. Do you remember what you said? I think my least favorite one is pulling weeds. Isn't that it? Well, I was going to say dealing with slugs. Okay, yes, that's it. Pulling slugs off the lettuce and around the lettuce and just in the garden generally. I hate that job.

Oh, my gosh. But what did you say? Pulling weeds. Yeah, but we don't have a lot of that because of the mulch. Right, so yeah, we don't have so much of that anymore. Okay, and here's one for you. Oh, I didn't answer what my favorite one is. My favorite perpeture, I think, is probably planting, planting the garden and getting my hands on the soil and, you know, seeing the little seeds and then watching them grow up. So I think gardening, really, and planting the garden is my favorite one.

Okay, and let's see what Amber has to say. Okay. A, what do you feel is most likely a specific challenge to our country next? Oh, five or six years that prepping will help. That's a great question. I think that probably the challenge we will have is the generation rising up. I wouldn't necessarily say economic or, you know, EMP. but I would say the generation that's growing up dealing with any challenges that may arise

because I don't think that my generation is prepared for that. I know our parents are a little prepared, but I don't think the generation growing up is going to be capable of handling those things. And I think that's the biggest challenge we have is trying to raise the generation. And what do you think are the challenges that they're going to face? I think definitely as more and more countries develop more and more weapons, I think just dealing with trying to keep fights down and trying to stay out of other people's business,

you know, and trying to keep the United States, you know, in our place and not to go picking fights. So I think that's the biggest thing. And, you know, there's always been a bit of economic hardship. And it comes and goes in waves, so it's kind of hard to say exactly when. But that was a great question. Well, and I think what you say is noteworthy because this is, I mean, something peculiar to this generation, I feel, is, and I don't want to overstate this and be too dramatic, but it's a bloodthirsty generation, and they're trained on that. They're trained that way based on the movies they watch and the video games.

watch and that kind of thing, don't you think? That's right. I think we're trying to, you know, when the kids are playing the video games that are all about war and... Murder even, yeah. Yeah, and murder, and watching

TV shows about murder and movies that are about war. I mean, there's nothing wrong with watching historical things, but things that are way overplayed and become way too traumatic. I think they get that in their minds that that's okay because they're playing characters in the video games that do that, and they

get that in their mind that, you know, war is a is an active thing and that we should always be interested in becoming the great world superpower. So I think that maybe if we toned it down a bit, we wouldn't have so many problems in the United States. Yeah, there's not a lot of movies out there about how to make peace and live civilly, are there? That's right. There's not. If you look at the percentage of movies, it's mostly about war and bloodshed. Yeah, okay, good point. Go ahead and keep writing your questions there in the chat room. we like that very much. I see that Homer said,

Are there other kids your age thinking about prepping? Okay, that's a good question. I think there are. Go on YouTube and look. I mean, I know Michigan Snow Pony, I've seen her kids in a few videos, and I know I've seen Noreen's kids in a few videos. So, yeah, I mean, there's other kids interested in that.

And I think that's reassuring if you're looking to get your kids interested in prepping, take them on YouTube, show them. that they're not alone, that their parents aren't alone, that they're not alone, that there are other kids and other families out there that are prepping. Renee just slid in, said, hi, Preparay. Hi. This episode is brought to you by Spreeker, the platform responsible for a rapidly spreading

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Start your show today at spreeker.com. Sprinker, because if you're going to talk to yourself for an hour, you might as well publish it. Okay, Preparay, with your long list of hobbies, which one is your favorite to do with your mom? Okay, I would say my favorite to do with my mom is cooking. I love making YouTube videos about her cooking. I think she's an amazing cook, and I have rarely found anything that she cooks that I don't like. And I think being her channel taste tester is my favorite hobby. I try the most amazing things.

Yeah, we should make a video about our setup for when we're filming videos because it's very interesting. I have a fairly small kitchen, and now we're using some professional lighting. So we've got all these legs of these lighting tripods. Then we've got the camera tripod. Then lots of times I try to sit in a chair so that I'm actually below the level of all those lights and that kind of thing. And then A's standing in there. It's crazy. We look like a bunch of giraffes.

you know, tripping and falling all over each other. It's crazy, but we manage. Let's see what we've got here. Okay, what about your friends? Do you interact with any of your friends in prepping activities? Not really. No, I wouldn't say that I have any friends that I really interact with prepping activities. Without, you know, operational security,

there's not a lot that you can tell your friends about prepping without, you know, kind of revealing your preps. So I know I have, oh, that's right, we do have a couple friends that are, you know, that are in canning and hunting. Yeah, and you've target practice with some people. That's right. And, you know, they're practicing. So, yeah, a little bit.

Oh, the other thing I was going to mention when somebody talked about people your age prepping, you'd be surprised how many young people subscribe to my channel who send me emails and private messages saying, I need to ask you a question because I can't talk to me. my mom and dad about this. I'm the only one in my family who's into preparedness and self-reliance and that kind of thing. So, yeah, there are a lot of kids out there. And you just can't imagine how much what they hear in the news impacts them and their parents, you know, have, what's the word, have become immune to what they hear and just don't let it bother them. But kids worry and they're concerned, and yeah, there's lots of kids out there prepping.

Jim in Texas says he fantasizes about cats being his mother. I am a very lucky dog. Oh, my gosh. Jim, I love you. Let's see. I'll apply to the auditor at a small place. Oh, yes, absolutely. No, Ray.

You know how it is, too. She's got a small kitchen, too. Okay. I remember when my girls were little, there were certain places. in the house that were off limits playing high and sick. Yeah, I hear you. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I mean, you want to, I mean, you've prepared for your family,

and it's not that you don't want to care for other people as well, but you've got to be smart. There's lots of people who don't prepare, and, you know, while you have concern for them, you've got to be careful. I think G-Man wants to come on and ask you a couple of questions. Okay. Thank you so much and thank you, Preparay, for coming on.

This is fun. My question relates a little bit back to you and your friends. Do you ever have, you know, kids are so open-minded with each other, unlike a lot of adults. Do you have other kids ever give you a hard time or a bad time about, prepping type issues or do you find kids that you're afraid to share that with? Like many adults do that are in this prepper community, they tend to really hesitate or not share at all what they do with other adults. Do you find that to be true with kids your age? Okay, well, that's a great question. I think gardening is mostly what I get to talk to my friends about,

because our front yard is fenced in and has mulch in it. And I had a friend that said he was going to come by and drop a grass bomb in my front yard, so some grass would grow. But their minds were changed when we started bringing tomatoes to the salad bar at school. They all kind of relaxed after that, you know. But I did have a few people saying, why do you spend so much time gardening? Wouldn't you rather be, you know, riding your bike or playing a video game? And, you know, I had to, you know, combat a few of those questions.

But it wasn't really all that bad because I live in a rural community where people are more apt to garden. But, yeah. If I can, too, before you quit, is how do you feel? What's your opinion of those that tend to hide that they prep as far as other, I mean, more adults. What is a 13-year-old's perspective on that? Okay. Well, I see where they would want to hide it, and even just not for operational security, but just afraid brothers would think of them. I think that you kind of need to have a, you know, whatever attitude. You know, if you tell somebody that, you know, starting out small, gardening is generally not a very scary topic, but, you know, say, hey, I love

love to garden and if I ask you why, then you can start, you know, getting into why you garden and why you prepare. But I think don't be afraid to tell people because the more people you tell, the more people will be interested in prepping and gardening and self-sufficiency. And so I think the more people that you tell, the better off you'll be. Right on. Thank you so much. Thank you, man. Do you think, more specifically to what he was asking, I think, do you think we as adults that we should we should hide that we prep or not?

No. I don't think you should. Now I think, you know, to an extent, yes, you need to be careful. You don't need to give people a tour of your prep. Oh, yeah, no, no. But I think, don't hide it. You know, for our family, that's part of who we are. That's part of what we do. It's part of our lifestyle. You know, and you never should hide, you know, who you are from people. Don't you think the smart thing, too, is to not take on the image that you're preparing for some crazy disaster.

You're prepared for an invasion of, you know, little green men from Mars or something. But that people get laid off all the time, and it's good to have a backup and contingency plan. I mean, you can share it in a real world scenario, rather than some type of fantastical what-if situation, right? Right. I think that's very important. You know, tell them that you base your preps. And, you know, of course, be honest with them.

But tell them that you base your preps on things that happen every day. I mean, the economy that, you know, went down in 2008, which I still don't think has recovered. But, you know, and people, like you said, people are getting laid off, losing their jobs. I think it's important that they understand that it's a big deal. and it happens to a lot of people. But I think, you know, presenting yourself as one of the crazy, you know, doomsday preppers isn't a very good idea because then they'll just, you know, put you off as a nutcase. So, you know, just kind of, you know, take a cautious approach to it.

Okay, here's the good one. Preper A, would you ever join a community of young ones if your parents weren't around in the time of ShtS? Wow. Now, you have to realize this. Let me just say this. We live away from all family. We live in a location. We live in a town of less than 1,000 people, way less than 1,000 people,

that is very remote, and there is no family. Our closest family is probably 8 or 900 miles away. So now that question. Okay. So like they're talking about, you know, if the grid went down or something bad happened, and there was a bunch of kids my age trying to get together and, you know, help. Most definitely, yes, I would. If my parents weren't around, yes, I would.

Because I think it not only depends on my survival, but, you know, I care about the other kids that are my age, and I want them to survive it too. So definitely I would, you know, get together banned with other kids my age. Okay. You've got an unusual group to choose from in this town, wouldn't you? Definitely. It would take some work. Okay.

If you want to win a copy of Jacob Miller's Big Adventure for a child in your life, please call in to talk to Prepar A. and we'll be happy to get one of those to you. Okay, let's see if we have any other questions here. I think I missed, did I miss one up here? No, I got it Oh, somebody asked me Earlier, what are the challenges

of raising Oh, here, hold on just a minute Did Preper I answer the question about how long it took her to learn the video videography? No, I don't think you did. I didn't answer that question, which is a really interesting question. Okay, I had the benefit

of my father, Paladin Prepper, and he's really good at taking pictures and video. So I learned a lot of things from him. I don't think it took me all that particularly long. I can definitely see that I'm getting better at it. The first few videos were kind of shaky. We didn't have a tripod.

I think they're better now. But, you know, it kind of had a learning curve to it. So I can't really give a definite estimate on how long it took. I would say you're still learning, wouldn't you? I would definitely say, you know, there are some things. I'm still figuring out all the little quirk. of my camera and of the tripod. And I think as I learn more about the specific technology,

that it will continue to get better. And it's even more than that. I mean, she's taking some great close-up shot. She's learning how to style food on a plate, you know, how to make it look attractive and what color plate to put it on and whether to put it on a place matter do that kind of thing. So she has lots of really great questions about that.

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Sprinker, because if you're going to talk to yourself for an hour, you might as well publish it. Somebody asked me, you know, how do you raise a kid like this? And I will tell you, I'll go way, way, way back, is that I think she's, I think, first of all, let me say this, that I think she is a unique individual, and some of what she is doesn't have anything to do with anything specific her father and I have done. And some of you know this who have lots of children in your family. There may just be a standout who is just, you know, blessed in the intellectual realm.

And that's kind of what this kid is like, because certainly her, usually what is typical is that a child will fall somewhere in between her parents' IQ, and that is not the case in this family. She is in a whole different category here. But we started very, very young with her, teaching her and talking to her. We never talked to baby talk. Now, I'm not saying that when she ooed and good, that we did not mimic that kind of thing back to her because that's what you're supposed to do,

and we did. But when we were talking to her, even from the time she was in a little, you know, Bacinette, we were talking to her and we were reading to her and we were reading things way above her level to her. And when it got time for her to talk, she was just barely talking and she said, you guys have to teach me how to weed. And I said, you're too young to read. And she said, no, I'm not too young to read, you know, in her little baby talk voice.

And I said, okay, we'll start tomorrow. and she said, why not today? And I'm like, okay, whatever. So I sat down and I said, this is the truth. Here's how these letters sound. And I went through all the letters with her. She pretty much knew how the letters sound, that the S, you know, went and a T went to and that kind of thing.

And then so I just started teaching her the blends, what C-H sounded like, and S-H sounded like, and T-H sounded like. And I said, so once you know those blends, and once you know the sound each letter makes, then you just join those sounds together. And she said like this, and she started doing it with two days she was reading. Within a couple of months, she could read anything I could read, including college-level material, although she did not have the background to understand what it means.

She certainly could read it. So she went to a baby shower with me. My principal was having a baby, and they passed up these little cards saying, what advice would you give to the mother? and all the grown women there were filling it out. Well, Preparay had been invited to this shower, and this was two or three years ago, and she decided to fill out one of those cards, and I'm like, what in the world? What kind of advice is she giving?

Do you remember what you said? I remember exactly what I said. I said, do not, under any circumstance, talk, baby talk. And you said, do not ever underestimate. Right, do not assume that they do not know. Yeah, do not assume that they do not know or cannot. understand what you're saying, teach it anyway. And so that's my advice is to push, push, push, push, push as much as you can. The other thing that I did when I homeschooled, lots of people asked me this

because they're like, oh, you're so lucky to have a kid like this, and I'm like, lucky nothing. We've worked like crazy. But lots of people would ask me, what, oh, which curriculum did you use? We want to use that curriculum. Please, you know, tell us what curriculum. I'm like, I didn't use a curriculum. And they say, what are you talking about? You don't order from a company? I'm like, no, I've never ordered.

Well, how do you teach her? I said, I wait for the question. And when she has a question, I try to answer it the very best I can. One day she said, how does popcorn pop? I'm like, I have no idea. But we're going to find out. And I spent a whole month teaching about popcorn, and we learned that's a little tiny bit of moisture in that popcorn.

and when it heats up, it creates steam. It causes that kernel to pop. We studied that. We made popcorn art. We made popcorn food. I found a popcorn farmer, and we spent the whole week on popcorn. And then I waited for the next question. I think it was penguins next.

Penguins. And then we went after it. We learned about penguins. We rented Pentequin videos. We made penguin art. When she said one day, she was just a little over three years old. We were driving to church, and she says, she's in the back seat and her car seat, of course, her father and I are in the front, she says,

does the atmosphere around the earth rotate at the same speed that the earth does? Yeah, did the clouds move at the same speed of the earth turn? Yeah, I look cross-eyed at her father and said, you want to take that one? And he's like, well, he started in on whatever he was going to say. And she said, oh, well, if you're talking about the jet stream, I know all about the jet stream, but I know what I'm like, okay, we'll figure it out. So that's what we did the next week.

So that's right. Preparaising alien. That's exactly right. So anyway, that's what I've done. I never bought a curriculum. Never did. All I did was answer the question. When the questions arise, the student is ready,

and then that's what you teach. Did I have to go to school as much as she did? Absolutely. Because she was always one step ahead. She still is. She knows higher math than I do, and she's now surpassed me in science. and for what I do today going forward, I don't have any idea.

We just, we play it by ear one day at a time. Okay, let's get back to, y'all, nobody wants my book. Nobody wants Jake and Miller's big adventure. You need to call in. Hey, just don't be shy. If a 13-year-old can come on here and talk in front of all of you, then one of you can certainly come on and join us. There you go.

Okay, let's talk about. Because let me see how much time we have here. Ha! You only have 20 minutes, and there's so much we want to say. Okay, you tell me what you want to talk about of all the things you had planned to talk about. Okay, probably what I want to talk about most is, well, there's one big point I want to make, and we can go into other stuff after I make this one point. Remember that even though you want to teach your kids all this really cool stuff about prepping

and gardening, all the skills. skills that get to learn, please, please remember, they are still a kid. And even though they may be capable of doing these things, don't filter heads with it all the time. You know, go out on fun family outings, you know, let them try a sport, you know, do something else with them. Just remember they're still a kid. With that said, get them involved in what you're doing.

my dad my dad's dad my grandpa was a beekeeper and my dad wanted to get you know into that and so he did he just jumped right in started reading material

and doing that kind of thing well I got interested in it too and he gladly welcomed me along and so I think how can kids be involved in beekeeping you know I think the best thing is proper education

about it you know a lot of of kids are afraid of bees. You know, the first thing I think of a bee is, ouch, they're going to sting me. But, you know, have they never had honey on toast? I mean, the biggest thing is getting them to understand that a bee doesn't want to sting you. You know, that it's there to do its job, and as long as you don't interfere with it doing, interfere with them doing their job, they're going to leave you along. So, you know, just proper education on all prepping matters is the most important thing to get them involved.

And you've been involved in beekeeping from the very beginning. I mean, you went with your dad. You dawned a white suit and went on his very first cutout. Remember when he cut it out of the big garage downtown? That's right. Sunup to sundown that day cutting out that huge. Oh, my gosh, there were a lot of bees. There were a lot of bees, weren't there?

And then even after you got the bees located up in the orchards, the whole next week was spent processing honey, and we learned that together, didn't we? We did. You know, definitely there's a learning curve to everything in prepping. There just is. And when you go into something, expect there to be a learning curve for you and then for your children.

And, yeah, we had to process the honey and learn how to strain it and how long it takes and, you know, the techniques that will be most effective and fastest. Yeah, good job. Let's talk a little bit about your responsibility with the animals. Okay, I think it's a great thing. One thing when you get, you know, I remember going with my parents to the local farm and home store and picking out chicks. I thought it was the coolest thing.

I said that about a lot of things, but they were all the coolest thing at the time. going and, you know, seeing all the various chicks and, you know, learning about pullets and, you know, how they try to divide the chickens between male and female, and it's very hard and, you know, getting to bring them home and put them in a little cardboard box and raising them, and then, you know, voila, they start laying eggs. You know, we wait a few months and they're laying eggs and we get to come in and make an omelette. I think that's very cool. And this is a child who cooks an egg for herself almost every single morning.

She is an egg eater. I love eggs. And she loves her little hens, and she just praises them when they lay. But, yeah, we learned that together by doing. I had never raised chickens before. When we bought those little fluffy chicks home, you know, I'm just praying that the lamp is going to be warm enough for them. But we just learned it, didn't we? And now we're totally confident about raising chickens.

aren't we? Oh, yes. One thing. Oh, we also raised rabbits for a short period of time. We didn't quite like that as much as the chickens because they weren't, they didn't produce every day. Well, no, we had the rabbits from hell. We really did, though. Those were the meanest suckers. My goodness. And I don't want to hear you have to hold them more. They were that way from the beginning. I'm sorry. While we're talking about holding your animals, well, it's good to form a caretakers, bond, you don't want to form a pet bond. With the chickens, it's easier because you're not going to kill them for food. That's a good tip, though, for somebody who's new into this and want to get their children or grandchildren involved.

Keep them the circle of life. Yeah, the circle of life. Something is going to die, even though you've tended it very well. If it can be born, it can die. Yeah. And you know what? I think a good place to start probably. I mean, I don't want to be sexist here, but I can see a little boy.

loving it. Wouldn't a worm farm be a great thing to start kids with? Yes. Oh, Cass, you're brilliant. A worm farm is definitely very cool. Now, I know there are some kids that don't like worms because they weren't exposed to them enough. Get the kid a worm farm. It's fairly easy to maintain. You know, they're going to give you worm tea and cast things and all that great stuff to put on your garden, which you get your kids involved in. But, you know, a worm farm kind of gets them involved in the importance of earthworms in many aspects of gardening. So definitely a worm farm. Great place to start them with raising things.

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Did you see a question? Oh, he said PM. Let me go look and see what. I'm sorry, I'm trying to do two things. Why don't you talk about? Actually, our first caller just dropped off cast, but we do have Emily up first and then Cindy next when you're ready. Okay, and Kara call back.

Who's the first one, GM? Let's see Emily Emily and who's next? Cindy Emily and Cindy Okay bring Emily in I'm sorry we got Kara She is here

So if I can't let me bring her in first Good, good good good Hi Kara are you there? Hi yes I'm here Hello I'm good hi I just wanted to call that You taught your daughter very well

And I really enjoyed listening to your show tonight Thank you so much. I'm so glad you called in. Would you like to have one of our books? Yes, I would. Okay. Well, stay on the line and G-Man will get that book for you. G-man, can I talk to Emily while you deal with Kara or not?

Yes, you can. Okay, thank you. Emily is on the line. Hi, Emily. Hi, how are you? I'm great. How are you? I'm great.

So how to Prepar A. Oh, hi, Preper A. Hi, Emily. I had talked to you earlier. This is my first time listening in, and my family is very new, paired in this game. And I had, this was the perfect night to listen for the first time. Oh, great. And I just kind of wanted, I guess it's kind of for the both of you.

I know coming from a girl whose mom was in the public school system and was homeschooled herself, we're on the sense about our little one. And I just wanted to get from Prevar A's perspective if that made a difference in the family closeness and the family pressing if she would have it another way or would she even change anything about how you have lived your life so far. Great question. Thank you, Emily. Okay. I'm really excited to answer this question because I was hoping somebody would bring this up. Okay, I wouldn't change a thing.

I am so glad that I got to experience both homeschooling and public schooling. because I don't think I appreciated homeschooling as much as I should have until I went to public school. I learned way more when I was homeschooled. I got more bonding time with my parents because I was home all the time, and it was an absolute relief to come back home after four years in the public school system. I think it helped a lot with prepping, especially because in the middle of the day at noon, if I want to go out and check for eggs from the chickens, I can do that. I can feed the chickens.

I can tend the garden. I can do whatever in addition to my classes, and I don't have to be tied, not tied, but at a desk all day where I'm pretty much only learning about 20% of each hour. So it's a lot better usage of their time and a lot better investment in their education. Yeah, and you would agree that if you're going to homeschool, I mean, the question always comes up about socialization. And that's a valid point, that you have to have avenues for your child to be socialized. Luckily, for us, we live in a very small town.

It's eight square blocks, and all the kids play every afternoon together. There's plenty of socialization, of course, you know, clubs. I also play in the high school band. Yep, she does go in one hour a couple of times a week, two or three times. the week to play with the high school band because unfortunately I can't provide her with, you know, 50 other people here in my home to play an instrument with. So she does go in for band and, you know, that works out well, don't you think. I think so.

I don't feel that my social side has been stunted at all. Nah. That's great. I had a similar experience growing up, too. So I just wanted to hear it from a whole other family. And in my gut, I knew I was right all along. You're right, you're right. Stick with it.

Thank you for calling. Thanks, gee. Bye-bye. Okay. Cindy, do we have Cindy there? Hi, Beth. Real good. How are you?

Oh, we're awesome. Great. Hi, Pepper. Hi, Cindy. Really enjoy your input into the videos and your take on the different videos. that you do and greatly appreciate it. I've learned so much, and my favorite is your mom's tomato soup that I have started making and has just become a staple.

Oh, it's great, isn't it? I know it is delicious. I had one, two questions, actually, for you, but the first one I'd like to ask you is, how do you handle, like, we have seven children, and some of them thought, oh, doom and gloom but others so it seems to be really perspective of the person themselves, how they handle

what are you, you know, what are you afraid of, or what are you preparing for? And it's not so much that I try to always tell it's not so much that we're afraid of something, but we want to be prepared in case there is something that needs to be handled. It can be something as simple as a power outage

or a whatever, a storm or whatever, or it could be something major. And I was just wondering, how you handled that, how you felt about it. I think I, well, that's a good question. I think I actually mentioned this the last time Katz hosted a show. I came in at the end and talked a little bit about keeping a positive attitude. I think it's important when you're talking to your kids about, you know, possible scenarios. you're prepping for, it's good to inform them why they're putting all this time and energy into prepping. But I think more focused on the great benefits they get from prepping.

And I think I try to, you know, while it's good to know, it's not good to focus. Right. It's good to have that in the back of my mind that, you know, this is an important event that could possibly happen. But I think, you know, more focus on the positive side. and the benefits you get from prepping rather than the negative motives. Right. Well, and that's what, like I said, you know, we have seven children, and they're all still different and an individual,

but it really seemed to be more the child outlook on life, how they took that. And I was just curious if that was because of how we handled it as parents, or if that was just how life is, you know. And my other question was, what's your favorite in the garden? What do you like to do best? Do you like berries? Do you like trees? Do you like the actual tomatoes, plants?

You know, what's your favorite part of gardening? That is a really tough question. Oh, my goodness. I don't know. I still really love picking strawberries. I still love blackberries and raspberries and strawberries. and strawberries. Well, I love the other vegetables.

I think that, you know, the fruits are what I love the most. Yeah, yeah. I totally agree. It's all a lot of fun, but thank you so much. Hi, Cindy, don't leave. Stay on the line and talk to G-Man, and he'll get you a book to you, okay? Oh, well, thank you very much. Thanks for calling.

Just appreciate you guys. Thank you. Thank you. Hey, and Emily, I hope you saw my message in the room. I forgot to give you a book before you left. So if you would call back in and talk to G-Man, we'll get a book to you, okay? Emily, are you still here? Where is she?

Oh, I don't know what her name is in the room. But, Emily, call back in and we'll get a book to you. I didn't mean to neglect you. I want you to talk for just a minute. We only have a couple of minutes about the day that you said to your father and me that we had to quit talking about the world's situation. the economy, the bad things in the news, all that kind of stuff. Okay, I clearly, you know, I really remember that day.

And I think it was just a bit of, you know, overactiveness in prepping. Because, you know, once we jumped in, we jumped in, you know, with, you know, everything we had. I mean, we were into prepping. and I kind of, you know, just had to say to them, I know the importance of this situation, we've got to relax a little bit. I mean, this is taking over every aspect of our lives. It's affecting our moods, you know, our family, you know, togetherness. And I think that once we started, you know, kind of backing off, checking the news,

I mean, well, it's important to stay informed that we weren't, you know, completely on it all the time. I think it changed us. I think we got a lot happier. We got a lot closer as a family. And it was actually easier to prep now that we weren't worried so much all the time. Yeah, and I will tell you, along around that time, we instituted the 9 o'clock. You have to be in your room. It doesn't mean that you have to be sleeping.

You can be reading a book. You can be working on the computer. You could be do whatever. But at 9 o'clock, you need to be in your room. and I will tell you that part of that was so that Daddy and I could still talk about those things that we needed to talk about that might worry or concern you, but you didn't have to hear it. So I don't know whether you know that or not, but at 9 o'clock,

when you go to your room to do your own thing for an hour before you go to bed, if there's something like that we need to talk about that might be worrisome from a young person, then we do it when you're not around. So how about that? Oh, hey, that works. I like that. Okay. Let's see. Jimmy and where am? One more minute. One more minute. You have been a fun guest. Thank you very much. You've been a fun host.

There you go. I hope you can tell that we love being together. You can still be the parent and have great fun with your kid. And if you raise them right, they can be your best friend for a long, long time. and I hope it stays that way. I just can't say enough about how much I appreciate this kid and what she does for me. I had her two months before my 43rd birthday, so she's got an old mom,

and it's hard to keep up with her, but I'm doing my best. I look like the Fred Flintstone in the car, the stone car, running my feet 90 miles an hour. So we're about to get kicked off here again. Emily, if you'll call in to talk to G-Man, he'll try to get a book to you. I hope you've enjoyed the show, and let me see, are we at the 58 mark we are? I'm out of here.

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