We truly date ourselves when we announce that we come from the tail end of the “baby boomer” generation but, coming from that period, having a father who fought in WW2, we were taught many things that, we think, our generation did not really teach Generation X or the Millennials.
Now, with Generation Z approaching – with the world nearly always at the edge of a new disaster, there is a real fear out there that many of our young people will fall further behind when it comes to survival prepping. Telling them not everything can be solved by their iPhone is nearly unthinkable!
In other words, it is up to you as prepping parents to teach your kids how to survive during a SHTF scenario. Yet, don’t just teach the basics, tell them why it is so important to know how to live without technology. Or, if they can’t, show them how technology (re: solar panels) can work for them should the worst happen.
After the break go to the next page and learn more about millennials and if they are truly ready for a serious emergency situation!
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They will curl up into a ball and just go sobbing into history like so much dust.
Meh, some of them should have been culled long ago.
Highly doubtful. Too dependent on technology
When the time comes leave them to die
As long as they caN FIX IT BY TESTING…
While I agree that the ability of each generation to survive, live off the land and to do without is generally on the decline… Some millennials would do just fine and some baby boomers would just die
Culled, haha
My other favorite is the people who just buy guns, and think their problems will be solved.
They can’t even wipe their own$#%&!@*
They need some silly putty and a quiet place
You are talking about the ones that want free college for doing nothing and never had a steady job and are easily triggered. Yes i call it Darwinism i can’t wait for it to happen.
No
I should say not all, but I would say 90% will not make it.
Yeah like when McDonalds is closed.
You’re not serious, are you? I know millennials who can’t even pitch a tent, let alone start a fire!!
Yes I’m dead serious. I have a 9 year old who would do better than most baby boomers
I’m considered a millennial. I hate it. The fact is I was raised in the mountains and homeschooled. What playtime we had was spent outside in trees and we didn’t own a TV set till I was twelve. The fact is my dad would hunt and butcher meat himself and my sister and I were right there helping him skin the animal. We fished and camped, and made so many fun memories but at the same time learned some pretty cool survival skills. What happened to the parents teaching their kids this stuff? Knowledge is handed down people. That’s how it’s kept going forward. All this baloney of raising kids with the tvs as their babysitters with lazy and too young parents has a lot to do with how things have changed. Parents don’t teach anymore. They coddle their precious children, or the opposite. Throw them out like some old unwanted trash to fend for themselves. Anyways I digress. I will not be one of the unprepared fools. And I will not feel sorry when they wind up pushin up daisies.
If you can make “long pig” for dinner, it might 🙂
Can be said about any generation. I am a Gen X’er. We have all kinds of knowledge and stuff…But how many of our fat asses will die of a heart attack trying to cut wood for the first time in 10 years when the big one comes. Each generation has it’s own challenges. Need to get with a community of diversity. All ages, creeds and skill sets.
Then, you sir, have taught them well! But I respectfully disagree with your original statement. While some boomers would die, many more millennials would die from the lack of basic survival skills.
millennials cant wipe their asses clean without leaving parents basements…LOSERS AND FUCKTARDS!!!!
Most useless generation ever!
Lmao hell no! They are dumber than a box of rocks
This generation of “Millennials” really scare me.
Brent, I’ve acknowledged the downward trend in ability. But the thin about broad generalizations is they’re almost always wrong. Sure, on average I would put each generation at a statistical disadvantage over the previous one in terms of primitive and emergency skills, all the way back to before settlement… I’d put money on an old fur trapper over a modern survival expert… But not every child raised after the millennium is a useless t**t
Well, while I don’t really consider myself a “Millennial” per say, I suppose I am by default due to the year of my birth; I personally would say that I and my close friends are definitely prepared for a survival situation. I may even go as far as to welcome one just to rid the planet of certain groups who seem hell bent on destroying it.
Hell no, they can’t handle life.
I know my kids make it.they tough as hell.
Hahahahha. Nope.
Ive been in a handful of survival scenarios. The worst was my car ran out of gas in the California desert. I got out held a Mylar over my head to stop the sun and kept walkin till someone drove by
Everyone keep giving them hell thou. Better get tough.
There was a reason Mr. Darwin had his ideas on the strong surviving. I firmly believe our world is the way it is because of warning labels.
You got admit the old timers where tough as hell.
Agustin Garcia
Just makes it that much easier to survive!
We need to find more like you!
Most can’t handle an opposing viewpoint!
If the internet goes down and we lose phone service, they couldn’t find their way home.
Weed out the weak I guess.
…all well!
LOL Hell no all then can do is run to their safe place and cry !
affluence breeds death when SHTF
Oh well sucks to not have Starbucks and walmart how will they survive
I agree with your last statement, Greg, as well as the second to the last. I guess it falls on the parents shoulders, kids should be taught, not shown, how to survive. I applaud your teaching your 9 yo the skills!
Nope, it will be the great purge or the largest population in our history to be on anti depressants
I’m considered a millenial but I grew up outside hunting fishing playing ball these dumbasses these days wouldn’t last an hour without their phones
I say this all the time
Unfortunately u two aren’t the norm!
You are the 10% who will make it. Good for you.
I even know how to use a compass and a map most couldn’t make it ten miles with a road map anymore
Thanks guys, I just think it’s sad how it seems that so many people have lost total sense of basic survival. This is almost s totally new world with a different language, music, and culture. I feel like an alien sometimes. So out of place.