🟣Raising resilient kids to become sovereign individuals:

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about how fragile modern life is—and how most kids are never taught the skills they actually need to thrive independently.

So I’ve been #dadstr planning and prepping a way to raise my kids to be self-reliant, adaptable, and free.

Instead of just keeping this journey to myself, I thought:

Why not share it on #nostr, get feedback, and improve along the way?

Here’s what I’m focusing on:

🧘🏽 Meditation

🔥 Starting a fire

🏠 Building a shelter

💧 Purifying water

🌱 Growing and hunting food

🔐 Encrypting communication

💰 Understanding money, investing, and self-sufficiency

✔ Backing up, restoring, and using signing devices

🛡️ Defending against both physical and digital threats

⚕️ Providing first aid

🗣️ Communicating in an emergency

💡 What’s one skill you wish you had learned earlier? Drop it below! 👇🏽

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🦌 Hunting (if that's possible)

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Am Lebanese of course that’s possible 🤣 in couple of years tho⚡️

Make it happen 😄🫂

clear communication of / setting sound boundaries 🪷

Thanks Laurel! 100% Without it it’s chaos!

Freedom to make expensive mistakes even when somewhat catastrophic (like having the freedom to do one’s own plumbing). One learns fast as a kid this way, so long as one doesn’t physically harm other people and isn’t maimed or killed oneself. Takes a very patient parent.

I just notice that when my kid breaks things, if I don’t scold and interfere she learns how to do it right more fearlessly and in a lasting way.

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Absolutely! Thanks for sharing zeph!🤜🏽⚡️🤛🏽

Just went through a book days ago…

“Odin empty handed” and it’s about teaching some of the skill you’ve just mentioned.

Please keep sharing, I have a 9 year old boy, living in a first world country, who I need to start “shaking up” slowly and with love . Thanks!😉

Thanks for sharing Carlo! I’ll lookup the book and added to my LONG reading list . Will do! 🤜🏽⚡️🤛🏽

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Ps: I’m not Carlo!😜😂

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You are describing our daily life at the bitcoin shephered farm. I encourge you to continue .. you will be amazed how your kids will be after few years

Family Genealogy

I've been researching my genealogy for the past year. And discovered that I am American Indian. Still working on narrowing down the exact tribe.

None of my cousins or Aunts or uncles had any idea.

Cool! I discovered my ancestors roots about two decades ago and was blown away! Thanks for sharing Ian.

Learn how to operate a boat. Both a single engine fishing boat, and one with a steering wheel.

Teach them about the metric system. It is a consensus superpower.

is there still a nation state using such outdated imperial measurements?

I meant the metric system as a subject in isolation. You can do scientific experiments bake a bread, hatch out eggs, build a house tailor a jacket and make CAD drawings for a CNC machine.

Metric system does it all and you can corroborate with others and have the plan come together with precision.

Abstractions are frequently more powerful tools than physical ones.

Just look at language and Bitcoin. You can't prove it is real but you know it's there cause it just works so darn well.

We live in a metric system ;)

What age(s) are your kids? That can play into what you're teaching them.

Also to read books about freedom, teach them to be more in contact with nature, learn to respect others by respecting yourself first.

Started teaching nature from 2years old🤜🏽⚡️🤛🏽 no human who respects and love nature can disrespect others imo. Thanks for sharing!

Make beef jerky.

Definitely! You just triggered a lot of thoughts boomer! 🤜🏽⚡️🤛🏽

Cool! Glad to help!!

Teach them the basics of how combustion engines work and basic repairs on vehicles and small engines. Too many people don’t have the confidence or competence to fix their own stuff. It’s like a language, if you have the basics down, you can think through how to fix things in a pinch, even if it’s something you have never done before or you don’t have the conventional means for repairing something available.

Thanks for the exponential advice! Planning to introduce fun mechanics along the way!

Did all of that with my kids, to various degrees of success.

How they take to certain things is up to them and their personalities (not to be confused with gender).

I believe it is important to expose them to as many different things as possible so they can (later) choose what to adopt. This creates flexible minds.

I would however add:

Learn to cook/prepare a healthy meal

Dance

Joy of reading

Skills in woodwork, metalwork, plumbing, electrics, electronics

Make your own clothes

Appreciation of beauty/art/nature

Being kind to everyone/friendly, positive, optimistic outlook on life

And most importantly: peaceful.

Thanks for sharing your experience AMT! That’s my philosophy 🤝🏽 love the plumbing one!

All of this too 🧡✊✊

One important thing I missed is stoicism. This in my opinion is a must and will make your child mentally more resilient, where others will jump on the bandwagon, stress out of the countless events.

It's to ignore what you can't control and to focus on what you can control.

I very much like The Daly Stoic by Ryan Holiday.

Workout, cooking, deescalation, setting prioritys, clear and kind communication (say NO if you want to).