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when I had kids at home it was part and parcel of their lives. to start with, they were required to have "emergency packs" at school for earthquake preparedness. the packs had food from home, specifically food that the child would encounter at home so that they felt comfortable. pictures of the immediate family, and emergency contact information.
whenever we went somewhere, like a fair, the first thing I would do is take them to a very obvious place (like a totem pole, flag, etc.) and we would agree that if seperated, this was our meet up place. they always knew what the communications procedure was in a disaster, which relatives to contact first, most likely meeting places, etc. as they grew up being accustomed to me working in search and rescue, they went on many training exercises as well as more than a few searches, so were extremely familiar with that aspect of preparedness
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