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    Life Skills for Kids

    Teaching our kids life skills is a key part of our homeschool. We're learning about finances, homemaking, cooking, and crafting. Also foraging, fishing, hunting, gardening, problem-solving and business skills. It's all part of our regular homeschool day.

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      7 Easiest Vegetables to Grow for Kids
    • Young girl by clear water with rocks dipping her toes before writing in her nature journal
      Nature Journal Ideas
    • A girl learning wilderness survival skills stands on rocks near a stream.
      Wilderness Survival Kits for Kids: What to Include?
    • Two children run on rocky terrain by a lake surrounded by trees. A circular sign in the center highlights outdoor safety for kids: camping, hiking, wilderness living, fire, and shelter.
      Outdoor Safety for Kids: 7 Camping Skills to Teach
    • Self-Reliance Activities for Children
      30 Activities to Help You Raise Self-Reliant Kids
    • A bag filled with food waste for composting: banana peels, eggshells, orange peels, a paper tag, and other organic material.
      Teach Kids to Compost: 7 Tips to Get Started
    • Children foraging wild roses
      Wildcrafting With Kids + Free Bath Salts Tutorial

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    Sarita Harbour.

    I'm Sarita. My family and I lived off the grid for 11 years in Canada's far north. If I did it, you can too.

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