{"title":"Off the Grid Living with Children","description":"\u003cp align=\"JUSTIFY\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\"\u003eToday, I’m going to\ntalk about children in an off the grid environment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"JUSTIFY\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\"\u003eIf you’re moving off\nthe grid and you have children. Of course, you have some additional\nconsiderations versus people who don’t have children. One\nconsideration you have is introducing your children to off the grid\nthinking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"JUSTIFY\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\"\u003eDepending on the age that\nyou move with your children off the grid, you will use different\napproaches probably for teaching them about off the grid thinking.\nFor very young children, it’s very easy. They don’t know anything\nelse. Right? And they will learn to be experts right away just\nwatching and working with you off the grid. They will be the easiest\nage group to deal with; they will be complete off the grid experts\nbefore they’re ten years old.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"JUSTIFY\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\"\u003eAs the children get a\nlittle bit older, you have to respect their existing lifestyle more.\nYou know, a ten year old child who’s asked to move off the grid\nfrom the suburbs is claimed to face a lot of trauma: leaving the\nsocial network at school, the play time in the suburbs of the city\nwith their friends, everything the kid has learned to date is going\nto start to disappear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"JUSTIFY\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\"\u003eSo it’s important to\nbalance that as you take your child off the grid. Consider your\nchild’s needs and don’t leave your child in the dark about what’s\ngoing on. Explain to the child what you’re doing, why you’re\nmoving off the grid because you want this lifestyle for your family,\net cetera right? It’s not just to save energy. He needs to know\nthat this is a lifestyle change, this is something you aspire\ntowards. Right?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"JUSTIFY\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\"\u003eAnd then learn some\nchores, the chores may sound like work, but the chores will, if you\nassign specific chores to your children, they will become more part\nof the community, of your off the grid community. They will feel like\nthey’re adding to the family’s wellbeing, and they will gain\nspecific expertise in the areas that you assign the chores, so they\ncan gradually attain the off the grid mindset that they will need to\nbe successful off the grid. \n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"JUSTIFY\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\"\u003eAnother consideration\nabout children off the grid: School. \u003ci\u003eHow are they going to go to\nschool?\u003c\/i\u003e All the most common solution is for off the grid livers\nliving in the mountains or rural areas is home-schooling. Now, there\nare a lot of different approaches to home schooling. And most people\nhave a lot of success with it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"JUSTIFY\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\"\u003eYou should check your\nstate’s home schooling laws. Right? There are different laws in\ndifferent states. You can also consider teaming up with an entity\nlike Home School Legal Defence. That will help you be sure that you\nyour rights are being granted to you. I mean, that you’re able to\nuse your right to teach your children off the grid; you need to make\nsure you have that legal right in place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"JUSTIFY\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\"\u003eAnd then it will help you\nkeep your kids educated and safe. Living off the grid also provides\nan incredible classroom for your children: the farm. If you’re an\noff the grid homestead-er, you’re probably farming and you have\nthis huge natural classroom at your fingertips, the land, the\ngardens, the animals. Enormous amounts of knowledge can be gained in\nthese areas and the children will become experts at farming and\ngardening, not just off the grid living. So there’s an enormous\nclassroom at your fingertips as an off the grid-er. You can share\nwith your children all the knowledge available in this classroom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"JUSTIFY\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\"\u003eSo, what’s another\nconsideration about taking your children off the grid? I’ll just\nend with one final one, a very practical consideration and that’s\nfor the babies and it’s: diapers. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"JUSTIFY\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\"\u003eIn our research, we\ndiscovered that many off the grid-ers have come up with a great\nsolution for diapers because diapers will double a family’s laundry\nload. A family of three, that all of a sudden adds a baby will have\ntwice the laundry that they had before the baby when they’re doing\nthe baby’s diapers. So a solution that many off the grid-ers use is\ntwo, five gallon buckets, one bucket for the poopy divers. And one\nbucket for the pippy diapers. The buckets contain water and right\nwhen the diapers are soiled, the parent puts the diaper in the\nappropriate bucket and just soaks it. So, when it’s time to wash.\nThe diapers wash very easily, right? No, stains. It’s sort of a\npre-wash.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"JUSTIFY\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\"\u003eBe careful, it’s not\nrecommended that you use large, five gallon buckets around babies,\nright? There’s a certain danger there. So, you have to be on your\nguard if you’re using these buckets. Be safe, keep your baby away\nfrom the buckets and away from any danger, but this is a great\nsolution for off the grid-ers. Pre-soaking: it’s that simple.  \u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/store.onlinelandsales.com\/collections\/off-the-grid-living-with-children.oembed","provider":"Onlinelandsales","version":"1.0","type":"link"}