| The clock is ticking, the days are passing by fast. Do | | | | for months before Christmas they started knitting |
| you have any concerns about the kind of planet our | | | | shawls, caps, gloves, socks or maybe a small blanket |
| children, grandchildren and great grandchildren will be | | | | for baby sister or brother. If there was a child that |
| living on during their lifetime? Today's way of living is | | | | enjoyed carpentry work, he would carve things of |
| destroying our values and the planet that our great | | | | wood for gifts or make a small doll house for his sister. |
| grandparents built for us. They respected nature that | | | | The children who were mechanical minded or those |
| gives life for healthy living. Our rivers, streams, bays | | | | who were obsessed with numbers also made use of |
| and our oceans had plenty of healthy safe fish for | | | | their talents at home until they were old enough to look |
| eating. The cattle, pigs and chickens were fed healthy | | | | for a job. |
| food, not filled with chemicals. Our trees were always | | | | It's unlikely, we'll ever go back to exactly that kind of |
| used for constructing homes and buildings, but they | | | | life, I'm sure you've noticed the pace of our lives is |
| were replaced by planting more trees. The land of | | | | getting faster? I have, and our clocks are ticking. We're |
| most homes had fruit trees growing on them and a | | | | enjoying the greatest material prosperity in all human |
| vegetable garden, even if it were a very small one. | | | | history. We do more, work more, travel more, |
| The children were taught how to do everything | | | | consume more, waste more, and our clocks keep |
| according to their age and they all helped with the | | | | ticking. but we must all find a little time to do the things |
| household chores. They learned how to prepare, from | | | | that each of us can do to stop destroying our planet. |
| natural products, mixtures to prevent the bad insects | | | | Many cities have trucks that go by homes at least |
| from eating the plants, mixtures for preventing | | | | once or twice a week to pick up cans, plastic bottles |
| infections for themselves if they scratched or cut | | | | and paper to be recycled. We should all use |
| themselves. They learned which natural products were | | | | biodegradable household products. Do some research |
| good for cleaning windows and mirrors. | | | | and you'll find you can purchase concentrated |
| The families all went to church together on Sundays | | | | biodegradable products that may sound expensive, but |
| and prayers were always said before each meal and | | | | will last much longer and perform much better than the |
| before going to bed at night. When they became of | | | | one's usually found in the stores, so you're actually |
| age for going to school, they attended school. There | | | | spending less money and helping to save our planet |
| was still time for learning to play a musical instrument, | | | | You need to find products that have been researched |
| to sing, dance, acting in school plays or in town events. | | | | and tested to be biodegradable in a very short length |
| Those who enjoyed poetry would recite or even | | | | of time and not something that says biodegradable but |
| invent poetry just for fun. Some girls liked knitting so | | | | may take many months to biodegrade. |