[brwnsuga]

Please don’t tell my 15 year old daughter about this. She is almost too interested in survivalist crap and learning to live off the land. I have already purchased a huge book “Country Wisdom and Knowhow” for a Christmas present. If she finds out she can build a bunker she’ll probably ask her Dad to rent a backhoe.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

If we lose the election, we might want spider holes, bunkers, and — you name it. Me? I’ll just hide under the bed.

[ladyvet]

Don't feel alone, my 22 year old stepdaughter is in collage and studying “ Green Building”. Needless to say, we don't talk politics. I keep praying she'll grow up one day.

[magslinger]

If she finds out she can build a bunker she’ll probably ask her Dad to rent a backhoe.

If she does aske her Dad to rent a backhoe, tell her that a secret bunker does not involve records with the rental place and buy her a shovel and pick.

[austinaero]

You have a very smart daughter. Personally, I plan on meeting as many survivalists as I can in person, to gauge if they are balanced or off-the-scale wacko. I think we will all need some sort of “quiet” network if Obama wins. I really believe this.

[Sisku Hanne]

I had a strong interest in all things pioneer and wilderness at that age, too. There was a book I loved called “My Side of the Mountain” by Jean George about a boy who ran away and lived out in the wilderness on his own, in a tree hollowed out by lightning. And I loved the “Foxfire” book series...especially the first one. It was all these interviews with elderly folk up in the Appalachian Mts., and their old ways of living and folk remedies. Really fascinating. The type in Country Living is so small, but it has everything from A-Z.

[bad company]

She is almost too interested in survivalist crap and learning to live off the land.,

Get her a couple of foxfire books and you'll be the mom of the century.

[tet68]

Always remember, a bunker without a berm is worthless,
and concertina wire, lots of wire.

Maybe she would find “Living off the land in the city or Country” by Ragnar Benson an interesting read.

I have hopes for my niece, the total urban girl,
she has just started dateing someone who is into camping.
They were supposed to go last weekend on her first camping
trip, I haven’t gotten the after action report but hope
it went ok.

My mom was a city girl unfortunately when my dad took her down to the country to meet his folks he took her fishing
at the pond, she looked real cute in her white shorts but
he forgot to tell her not to sit in the poison oak...
she hates the country to this day. Hope my niece gets off
to a better start.

[ansel12]

Here is a stocking stuffer that everyone should read. It is from the daily life of a boy in 1805.

Diary of an Early American Boy: Noah Blake 1805 (Dover Books on Americana) (Paperback)

http://www.amazon.com/Diary-Early-American-Boy-Americana/dp/0486436667/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_i/002-3291733-1919262

[Excellence]

I have heard it said that if everything fell apart, it would be War for Independence and Civil War re-enactors who would survive best. Perhaps your daughter would enjoy being involved with one of these groups. On the Yankee side, of course. ; )

[tiki]

My 15 yr old granddaughter was just telling me that it was good that we are farmers and know how to grow anything that we need to eat and that we can hunt. I won’t let her read this because we do have a backhoe.