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How to Prioritize Preparedness When Your Spouse Doesn’t Care
So your spouse doesn’t care about food storage or other emergency essentials? Here are some tips to help you prioritize preparedness and keep your spouse happy.
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Getting your family interested in emergency preparedness can be a challenge. Not everyone can easily see why it’s so important. So why not make it more fun?
Today I’m sharing 6 apocalyptic movies you can watch with your family. Let Hollywood kickstart a conversation about different ways your family can better prepare for any type of disaster.
Grab some popcorn, favorite candy and a fizzy drink and settle in for a family movie night.
Picture March of 2020, but way worse. An unknown virus is spreading from an unknown location, killing millions of people.
I like that you see the entire thing unfold, from the first person infected, to what the world looks like months in to the epidemic. I also really like that you get to see the perspective of normal civilians, the media spin on things, and also the CDC’s role in all of it.
This one wasn’t as action-packed as some of the other movies on this list, so my kids weren’t as impressed with this movie. But that’s one of the reasons that it feels more realistic than some of these other ones, too. So … pros and cons. I give it a solid 4 stars.
I think this is a decently realistic movie with a lot of topics to think about.
A planet-killing asteroid is rapidly approaching Earth, as this family attempts to travel to a government-built bunker located in Greenland.
My family (teens and tweens) liked it, so that was a win in my book! It was definitely a riveting story, full of action.
This movie is mainly about racing to a destination…there’s not a ton of survival other than fighting the traffic and crowds. However, there were 3 main topics that caught my attention.
The reason this family had been chosen by the government to “deserve” a spot in the bunker, was because of this man’s skills. The government had hand-picked people who would be able to rebuild life as we know it. This guy wasn’t a rocket scientist – he was an engineer who designed buildings. It’s an interesting topic to consider – what skills would you bring to the table, if you literally had to start from scratch?
An alien invasion. Blah blah blah. But this one is super weird…
This movie was WEIRD. Not my jam.
But given some of the topics you could get from it, I feel like it has a place in this lineup of movies (and the fact that it’s Tom Cruise…I mean…come on). But no, I did not enjoy watching this movie. We didn’t even show it to the kids. It’s weird. Aliens come to overtake earth and basically grind up human beings and spit out their blood everywhere. It’s weird.
A family is trying to survive in a world that has been overtaken by blind aliens with super crazy awesome hearing. Translation: you have to be quiet all.the.time. if you want to survive.
Although this movie looks like a horror movie, it totally isn’t. I actually really liked it! I also love the mom and the dad (Emily Blunt and John Krasinski). It’s one of my kids’ favorite movies, so it’s a great excuse to get some conversations going. It is definitely intense, but not horror. I don’t do horror.
The incredible story of a family who was in Thailand on vacation in December 2004 when the Indian Ocean tsunami hit.
This was a really incredible story – great for the whole family.
I liked that this was a true story, based on a real event in recent history. It makes it really relatable.
HOWEVER … WARNING … I was not prepared for a full-on naked boob shot of the mom! It wasn’t in a sexual way – she was wounded and needed to take care of it. But still – I was really shocked and it made for an awkward moment as we all sat there and watched it as a family, teenage boys and all. 😳
But overall, a really great story about a real family who experienced a really terrifying tsunami.
Picture March of 2020, but way worse. An unknown virus is spreading from an unknown location, killing millions of people.
I like that you see the entire thing unfold, from the first person infected, to what the world looks like months in to the epidemic.
I like that you get to see the perspective of normal civilians, the media spin on things, and also the CDC’s role in all of it.
I think this is a decently realistic movie with a lot of topics to think about.
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