Video Title
School Emergency and Disaster Kits for Kids and Students – Prepping for Non-Preppers #BetterPrepared
Video Description
NEW VIDEO: Frequently asked Community Question 🤔, “Hey, what should I include in an emergency kit for my kids while they are at school?” 📚 Great Question!
Now that school supply lists are arriving for the upcoming year I thought it was a good time to address this one. Some schools include emergency supplies with their school supply lists, but many either don’t provide an adequate list of supplies or don’t include any requirements or recommendations at all. This video will show you the kit that I made for my kids and hopefully inspire you to build some of your own.
This video goes through:
– The supplies I include in each kit for my children.
– Why I chose those items, and why I didn’t choose other options.
– Why I decided to make emergency kits for my children in the first place.
– The importance of customization within each kit.
– Why these kits aren’t just for school.
Each child is unique and each school situation is different, so you may want to modify this kit based on the rules of your school or the needs of your child. It’s also important to remember that these kits are designed to help my children until I can walk to their school and get them (about 8-12 hours), I didn’t design them to be long-term survival kits (that will be a different video 🤓).
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hey there did you just get your school
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supply list and look down for emergency
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supplies and realize that if they’ve
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been completely missed or the totality
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of emergency cly’s supplies was a ziploc
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bag a juice box and a bag of fish
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crackers well for most of us that are
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thinking about emergencies that is not
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gonna cut it so stay tuned and I’m going
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to show you the kit that I made for my
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kids that they take with them to school
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that they take with them to friends
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houses and can be kind of a baseline for
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you to build your own kit or modify it
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for your own kids so stay tuned and
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check out the video next hey everybody
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welcome back to Jeff Kinney dispatch I’m
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Casey and today we are going to talk
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about a topic that I am really really
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excited about I get asked about this
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quite frequently and the topic is
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emergency kits for kids specifically as
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we start to head into the fall emergency
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kids for kids to take to school we’re
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going to talk about why or I’m gonna
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talk about why I put one together and
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then also what I put in mind why I put
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what I put in it for the kids how you
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might want to modify and change it
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customize it and and kind of what you
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might want to think about as you are
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putting something like this together so
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stay tuned and we are going to jump into
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it right now so why did I make an
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emergency kit for my kids and why might
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you want to make an emergency kit for
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your kids well there are several reasons
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I’m gonna talk on the the three that
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kind of stood out to me
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so first is when we started going to our
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school we go to a charter school we go
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to a commuter school it’s not close by
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our house when we started going there
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and talked to the principal at the time
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there was no real emergency plan in
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place at all there was some rough plans
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but there were no supplies there were no
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water bottles for the kids there was no
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food plan that there was nothing really
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and so I spent some time with the
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principal trying to get some of those
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plans in place so the school as a whole
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would start to have plans what I
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recognized from that is is that worst
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case scenario I wanted to my child to at
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least have something so I wanted to make
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a kit that they could have so
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if they were waiting for us to get there
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they would at least have something they
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would have something to eat
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they would maybe have something to keep
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warm but they would have some basic
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supplies until we got there the second
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reason that I made a kid was a lot of
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schools in our area and a lot of schools
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other places will send home a list of
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emergency supplies along with their
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school supply list so you get your
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pencils and you get your notebooks on
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all of that and then there’s also a list
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of things usually that they want in a
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gallon ziplock bag that will stay at the
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school and usually that’ll stay in a
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bucket in the classroom or it’s supposed
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to stay in your child’s backpack our
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school didn’t have a list like that our
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school still doesn’t have a list like
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that so what I wanted to do was to put
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together a kit based on some of the
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lists that I had seen some of the things
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that I think are specific to being at a
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commuter school that maybe a
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neighborhood school wouldn’t necessarily
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need to consider so that we would have
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something even though there wasn’t a
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specific list that the kids would have
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something specifically for them the
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third reason that I made these kits is
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because they don’t just go to school it
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started out that that was really where
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they would go when when my wife and I
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weren’t with them and so making a kit
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kind of tried to expand the blanket of
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safety that we were trying to put
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together with our supplies at home and
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supplies in cars and things like that
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and so the kit allowed that to kind of
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extend to where they were at school what
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I realized was they go lots other places
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they go to friends houses they go to
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classes and so having an emergency kit
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that’s only for school doesn’t
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necessarily help them in any of those
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other places and if I’ve got to put a
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kid together I would rather make it a
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kit that they can use multiple places
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then have it be something that’s
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specific for school and then I’ve got to
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make another kit in another kit in
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another kit so this kit is really
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designed to kind of go in their backpack
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when they go to school it’s designed to
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go in a backpack if they go to a
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friend’s house it’s designed to go in a
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backpack when they go to a class or a
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lesson or something like that but kind
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of wherever they go this is a kit that
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can travel with them as well so they
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have a base level of supplies just like
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when we go anywhere when we are in the
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Arwen we’ve got I’ve got one of my bags
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with me we always have some level of
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supplies with us and so this makes sure
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that when we’re not with them they at
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least have something all right so let’s
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talk about the kit so the first thing is
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the pouch a lot of people will a lot of
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schools say you as a ziplock bag that’s
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totally fine I wanted something that was
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a little bit more durable something that
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could go from from backpack say backpack
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something that would add relieve some
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room for adding more things have a
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little bit of structure and organization
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to it so I chose a Maxpedition pouch
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Maxpedition makes awesome pouches I have
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several different versions of this pouch
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I usually use their EDC pouch for my own
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things and that goes in my laptop bag
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and and goes between other areas this is
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the beefy pouch they have great names
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this is the beefy pouch there is also a
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fatty pouch organizer which is slightly
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smaller it’s in-between the EDC and this
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one I initially thought that’s the one
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that would fit the best but this
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actually gave me a little bit more room
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so this is the one that I’m going to go
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with as you can see it’s nylon it’s
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water-resistant
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it’s got some pockets in the front that
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are velcro it has a Velcro stickum area
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here where you can actually take either
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a name or you could put an identifying
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mark of some sort and put the patch on
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here for most of our bags I have a
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fighting duct patch that I have on it so
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that I can identify our bags at a
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distance so you could do something
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similar to that it also has a handle at
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the top so when we talk about putting
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them in backpacks I usually put this in
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kind of the middle pocket of my child’s
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backpack and then if I need to get it
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out or if they need to get it out they
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can just use this handle and pull it out
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really easily you don’t need to dig
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around very much it’s got double zippers
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which is super helpful because then you
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can actually open the entire thing up as
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opposed to just opening the top and
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digging in and as I said this is
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definitely like an organizer and there’s
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a lot of stuff in here so having the
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ability to lay it down
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and unzip it like this to then open it
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up is going to make life a lot easier
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for for you and your child in that
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emergency situation okay so let’s talk
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about what’s actually inside the pouch
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so the first thing that’s in the pouch
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is food so I picked these PowerBar
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builder bars mostly because they have 20
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grams of protein in each bar so if the
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kids needed to eat this especially
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because they’re little I mean these are
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are pretty significant meal replacement
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snack options so having a couple of
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these they can eat through those and by
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the time they’ve eaten through them we
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will probably be – wherever they are as
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opposed to just putting in some crackers
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or like an applesauce a those can spill
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or crunch or make a huge mess inside the
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pouch if they get open but also there’s
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not a lot of protein in there so yeah
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they’ll eat it but they’re gonna get
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hungry again really soon after so I
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would highly encourage you to find
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something that’s high in protein make it
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a taste test we did a taste test I
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bought a bunch of different flavors and
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let the kids pick which flavor they
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liked and then we also put those in all
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the cars so not only do they get to pick
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their flavor that was in there their
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emergency bag but they also got to pick
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kind of what was gonna be in our cars so
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they had stuff that they really liked
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the next thing that’s in the pouch is
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about lighting so I have a couple of
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things around lighting one is these
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little snap snap light glow lights so
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these are the the lights that you take
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it out you crack them and they
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illuminate so these are great because
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they last for a really long time and
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they glow which makes a visibility
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really great you’re not going to
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necessarily be able to do a ton of
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reading or see really in front of you a
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whole lot but it will give you a little
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bit of light and it will let people know
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where you are so having one of these for
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your kids is going to be great
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especially if there’s a crowd of people
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and you want to be able to see them the
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other thing is a headlamp
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so you can also go with a flashlight a
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standard baton style flashlight I chose
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a headlamp so that the kids can actually
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put it on and have
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of their hands available to do whatever
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they needed to do whether it’s play with
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friends or whether it’s you know hold
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you know God forbid us to hold like a
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medical dressing on or something like
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that
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I don’t want to have to their hands to
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be already committed to something when
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they can really easily have a headlamp
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they can see where they’re going and
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they’ll see where they’re walking and
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this is the Coleman divide so what’s
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really cool about this headlamp is it
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actually separates apart I’m not sure if
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you can see that but the the battery
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compartment is in one side and the
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lights and the other and so with a
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normal headlamp you would put the
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batteries in and they would kind of
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already be active in the lamp and so
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they would degrade over time they would
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rust out they would corrode and you
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would really want to probably store your
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batteries separately in this case the
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divide lets you pop this apart and then
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the batteries actually are just sitting
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in a case they’re not actively touching
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the the light so you could put your your
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batteries in here as my kids have gotten
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older I take the batteries out and store
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them separately but if you have a
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younger child who maybe can’t use their
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fingers and get in and operate the
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battery compartments and stuff using
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this to kind of keep the batteries
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active and make it so they don’t have to
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worry about it would be a great option
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so when it comes to signaling having a
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whistle is really important I have these
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kind of slim line yellow whistles for
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each of the kids what is nice is that
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they don’t have the kind of the bubble
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and the PIA at the bottom so they don’t
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make a lot of noise and rattle when
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you’re when you’re walking but they also
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take up less space in the bag and the
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pouch they’re bright yellow so they’re
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gonna be easier to see if your child is
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holding on to them if they’re attached
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to the pouch and so they’re holding on
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to it with the pouch they can see it but
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they are super loud so you they people
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will be able to hear this at distance
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which if your child is separated or lost
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or something like that this will
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definitely help bring people’s attention
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to where they are since we don’t really
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know what the weather is gonna be like
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I’m including one of these sole
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emergency blankets again I have these
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and a lot of different kits you
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have seen them before in some of the
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other videos these are really great
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because they’re a little more durable
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than your standard mylar blankets that
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you might get on Amazon that are super
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cheap they’re really flimsy and they can
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tear really easily the this is a little
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more durable you could also use this
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almost like as a tent you can use it as
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a blanket you can use it in a variety of
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different ways and for a child this is
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this is meant for an adult so for a
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child you may be able to get two kids
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under this or three kids under this as
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opposed to a single child with maybe a
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smaller blanket it’s also great because
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it’s orange and silver so there’s an
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orange side and a silver side so the
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orange side is again gonna be something
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that’s gonna be great for identifying
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your group or if identifying your child
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from a signaling perspective aside from
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just the standard mylar that that you
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might see so these are really great
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they’re great for rain they’re great for
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snow they’re great for cold they’re
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great for shade so this is just an
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all-around great option so I’d make sure
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I have to DSN in each of their kits so
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from a first-date perspective there’s
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only a couple things i included in the
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kit I don’t intend for this to be a
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first aid kit wherever my child is
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likely has a larger first aid kit that
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is designed for some sort of a major
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injury so I wanted to just have
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something that would basically make it
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so that they could take care of the
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smaller things themselves and not have
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to go bother the medical tent or whoever
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is doing triage to take care of a cut or
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a scrape so what I included were a
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couple of just standard size bandages
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and you can include them some of them
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have like an antibacterial ointment
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already included in them some are just
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standard these are just standard because
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that’s what we had you know if you want
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to get the antibacterial ones that would
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be great because then your kids would
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need something like that to include
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separately it’s just a bonus for the
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bandage and then the other thing I
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included were these baby Ganic
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alcohol-free sanitizing wipes so what’s
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great about this is that they are
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alcohol-free so if you have sensitive
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skin or you just don’t like the sting of
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alcohol this will do antibacterial and
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and
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sanitize as well you can use it for a
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cut or a scrape but you could also use
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it for example from a sanitation
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perspective if you need to go to the
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bathroom there may not be actually like
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great facilities to go to the bathroom
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there might not be you know soap and
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water and things like that
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so having something like this to wash
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your hands with is gonna be at least
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better than nothing so I included these
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so they have a couple of options also
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they come in these little individual
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packs so you can get a big bag on Amazon
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and you can put a few packages in the
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kids kits you can put a few packs in
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your backpack so you can put some in the
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car and kind of spread that investment
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out as opposed to buying something
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specifically for just this kit so really
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really love these we live in the
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northwest and for us rain is always a
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consideration for more days than its not
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so I included these kid Poncho’s in each
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of the bags so the idea is that if it’s
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really raining hard they could put this
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on it’ll be it’s plastic it’ll protect
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them and keep them dry from that and
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then they can use the blanket you know
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neither maybe as like a bigger shelter
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if they get a rip in the poncho they can
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transition to the blanket but then this
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becomes kind of their primary
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waterproofing method and the blanket
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becomes more about more about heat or
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shade or shelter so they kind of can use
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these either but I’ve told them you know
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ponchos first and then then go to the
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blanket so a couple last things so one
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is Sharpie having some sort of a pen
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that they can write with whether they
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need to write their name whether they
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need to write down an address whether
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they need to write down information
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having something that they can write
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with is gonna be really important I like
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sharpies because they you’ll write on
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anything and they’re not it’s not going
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to rub off or wipe off like a ballpoint
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pen might or some of the the types of
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inks that are in certain pens might wipe
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off or run off sharpies gonna stay and
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it’ll write on anything with the felt
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tip as opposed to a ballpoint where
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depending on the type of paper you have
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or what you’re trying to write
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that may be more difficult so this is a
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really a must
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and then also some cash this is one of
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those things that you kind of go back
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and forth on but if they need to buy a
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bottle of water if they’re walking home
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with friends and they need to get
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something if they’re with a friend maybe
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they’re at a friend’s house and
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something happens and they want to buy a
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snack for themselves or something having
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some emergency money is always a good
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thing I think I put put $10 in their bag
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in in $1 bills I didn’t want to put any
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big bills and I don’t want to put a ton
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of money in there I don’t want them to
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be a target I don’t want them to have a
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ton of disposable cash with them at any
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given time because they might lose this
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whole kit but if they did need to have
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some sort of cash because they’re not
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with us I want to make sure that they
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have a way to buy things if they needed
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to so one of the things that I put in
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the kit that is I would say probably
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kind of controversial is I got each of
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my children a emergency cell phone and
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I’m gonna do a separate video on kind of
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why and what it what’s in it and how you
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do it and and why I chose the ones that
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I did but if a cell tower goes down if
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the cell towers are working then they
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can use this to call us so if they’re at
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a friend’s house and it’s not an
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emergency but they’re just scared or
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whatever they can always call us there
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are a certain number of minutes on the
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phone every month that they can use if
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they want to but also I’ve programmed in
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pictures of family I’ve put in addresses
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with offline maps so in case they the
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cell towers did go down they would
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actually have some information at their
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fingertips that they could use to either
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reunite with us to help people reunite
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them with us or if cell towers are up
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but they’re still stranded at school
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they can still send text messages they
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can send calls and and video chats or
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whatever is is available they can use so
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I have one of these for each of them and
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then in their emergency kits
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have a charger so this will charge the
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phone at least once maybe one and a half
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times depending and a charger cable so
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you don’t want to have a phone that goes
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dead in the middle of a disaster or
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right off the bat from a disaster so
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making sure that if you’re gonna have
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something like a like a phone for your
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kid that you have a charging device that
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will get them through a few hours just
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like with the headlamp you want to make
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sure that you have a couple of extra
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batteries that are available so if they
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run out of power they can they can swap
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those out water is one of those tricky
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things when it comes to emergency kits
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for kids and I’m gonna tell you why you
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will think it’s pretty straightforward
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but for us our kids are required to have
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a water bottle like a stainless steel
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water bottle with them in class all the
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time and they keep it full and they
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drink it throughout the day so that is
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kind of their main source of water they
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also now at the school have backup water
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bottles so I have not included a water
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bottle specifically in this kit because
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that’s something that they have a couple
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of different methods to get while they
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are at you know while they’re waiting
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for us but you can always put an extra
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water bottle in their backpack you can
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especially if they’re going to a
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friend’s house or something you can put
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an extra water bottle in their backpack
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it’s not going to take up a lot of space
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it’s probably not going to fit great in
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the pouch so I wouldn’t include it in
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the pouch also if this pops or leaks or
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anything you don’t want this to ruin
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everything that’s in the pouch but it
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definitely wouldn’t hurt to include it
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but I haven’t included it specifically
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in the pouch for those reasons so that’s
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going to wrap it up for today’s video
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going through the emergency kits that I
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have put together for my kids please
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remember this is what works for us and
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this is just a suggestion I wanted to to
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give you guys a view into what I’ve put
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together and why I’ve put it together
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and I want you to take that I want you
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to make it yours I want you to modify it
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for your kids for their ages for their
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needs based on their school based on how
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prepared their school and your family
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are
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you know every every kid is gonna be
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different every kid is gonna be
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different and you want to make sure that
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the kit that goes with your kid is
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customized for them so thanks again for
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joining us if you have any questions if
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you have things that you think should go
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in a kit that that we didn’t include
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here please leave the suggestions in the
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comments down below we’re always looking
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for new and great ideas stay tuned
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because we’re going to do a couple more
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videos around school as as we get closer
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to the beginning of school so make sure
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you hit the subscribe button so you’ll
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be notified and thanks again for joining
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us and we will see you next week thanks
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bye bye
