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Edward Goldsmith believed that the needs of the community should be fulfilled in the communities, not in some huge conglomerate metropolitan area. I don’t agree with him on most things but here I must acquiesce and agree. Living in the Midwest, I see how nice that would be to still have the general store and bakery etc. in our little towns. It was the ease at which we could pick up and go to another, bigger town with more exciting things to do that put us in our cars and off we went leaving our small towns behind. This is one of the reasons why  the small town businesses dried up, not because the car was invented. People chose to go off to a bigger place instead of supporting their local area businesses. they selfishly desired to go be amused, rather than stay home and live a simple life.

This change of attitude, this feeling that we had to have more and better and bigger is not capitalism’s fault it is our misplaced priorities.

So, now you are going to tell me that big brother needs to come in a and fix that. De-develop our nation so we are less industrialized? NO, no no!!! We as a people have to prioritize our lives and let the family be the center. Do without if need be, so we can stay home and be with , care for, raise right,  and tutor wisely our children. Don’t blame this on someone else. We have created spoiled, bored children. we have allowed the TV and game system to babysit and teach them their social skills. we have sent them off to school and expected the teachers to raise them instead of being parents ourselves.  I too have been there with you. Thus My oldfashionedlife.com began and we are here on five acres trying to build the life my grandfather had.

Sadly, we are still trying to hold on to the rat race and finding it difficult to have a simple life. the pull of  materialism is strong and we are far from being released from its grasp. Conservative to me means that we are champions of personal responsibility in all  areas of our lives, even in the area of entertainment. How long has it been since we went outside and threw the football with our son, or had a party with our little girl and her dolls. It’s been too long hasn’t it? How long since we roasted hot dogs on a fire, had hobo (tin foil) dinners, ate smores and watched the stars, turned off the TV and read a book, played a board game, watched a home made puppet show, had a conference call with all the kids and our parents.

All these technologies available today were to give us freedom. Have they done so for our families, or have they separated us from each other? Have they allowed us more time together or have the technologies become our constant companion and distraction from the most important things in our lives?

Our affluence gives us more money for lessons and sports but has that affluence increased the quality of our family relations. If so, you have been a wise steward of your lives. If not, then today is the time to get an old-fashioned family and G_d centered life.