Hi picklee3:
Welcome to the International Preppers Network.
I live in Kelowna and have been prepping for a number of years.
As far as your parents being clueless...don’t be so quick to put them down. Maybe they are just unaware/uneducated on how close we all are to being without food to eat and without all the comforts we have taken for granted.
I am an older person with a couple of grown kids and I meet people of all ages who have no idea why we prep and in fact what prepping is all about. They hear all about how many guns and ammunition some preppers brag about and get the wrong idea about us. Most of what people read and see on TV about preppers are the fringe element that gives prepping a bad name.
Here in BC we are pretty lucky, at least compared to eastern Canada, and do not have very many ice storms, blizzards and long term power outages and we don’t think too much about what it would be like not to have heat, light and food.
Maybe you could find a few articles about how long people in Quebec and eastern Ontario were without power during their big ice storm a few years ago and how badly they were effected and how those that were prepared were better able to survive than those that darn near froze and starved to death. By doing something like that you might be able to put the prepping seed into their minds and from there it may sprout and get them to thinking about preparing for their own worst case scenario.
I am sure some people here in the International Preppers Network have some other ideas that you could employ to try to bring them over to your way of thinking.
All my best to you and I look forward to hearing from you in the future.

Welcome Picklee3 ! 🙂

I found the best way to get my family to pay attention is.... not to say anything about prepping.

Tho they are kinda on board but still don't go whole hog like I do.
I give them prep articles for B-days and Christmas, etc.

My son got a bunch of stuff for Christmas, when and if his car would break down in the winter.
Was not mentioned it was for being prepared. 😉

I said 'it's cause I care about what happens IF you get caught out and no help coming in the meantime. I don't have to worry as much.' 😉
I know he travels in areas where cell phones don't work, so it really bugged me when he used to say 'Oh I will just call...'

Yeah right and when a snowstorm hits, everyone else will be in the same position of not being able to help right when its needed.
No! Just not good enough for me.

I don't know about where you live, but where I am at on the opposite side of Kelowna. We have snowstorms that have us blocked in for long periods at a time, power outages too (we call the area, Candleville), forest/wild fire, etc. They do know that and that I like to have stuff put back and be ready to scamper if I have to, critters and all.

One is starting to see the light, but I have to get that one to stop buying useless things and put more in to food, etc. to have on hand for her and her kids.

Its a long haul Picklee3, so don't give up. Easy does it. 🙂