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Just some practical tips with regard to salubrious living and day to day maladies. Three things we have used as  a family with great success for 18 years.

1. Sulphur is naturally occurring yellow element and is great for rubbing in cuts, scratches and wounds. There is a whole range of commercial medicines called sulphonomides that do the same job but should be frowned upon by those seeking the salubrious life.

Bacteria can't resist sulphur and ingest so much their bio-chemistry bursts them from osmosis. This way they can't develop resistance. Works on fungal infections also e.g athletes foot. Creators can use sulphur medicinally because it is naturally occurring and not a product of the drugs industry.

2. Raw garlic acts as an internal sulphonamide and passes via the blood stream to any infection. Sore throats, swelling, infections, fever, garlic is great. @Cailen pickles his own garlic.

3. Cider vinegar is an old hill-billy remedy and cure all. A table spoon of cider  vinegar and a table spoon of honey disolved in very hot water make a great drink that cures anything from sore throats to fever, colds and flu. The honey is a natural anti-biotic and the vinegar raises blood pH to supress virus and bacteria.

Its a good idea to give your kids worthwhile hobbies. I suppose this is a list of Creator approved hobbies.

1. Encourage kids to draw, paint, read and write stories.

2, My boys liked to build model aircraft and tanks etc. A good selection of German models are available and encourage a sense of identity history and industrial design. Model making also has the benefit of  training the young mind to be logical, practical and analytical.

3, Outdoor hobbies are good, camping, mountain, climbing, fishing.

4, My kids all have different interests from bird watching to tree climbing and fossil collecting. Anything connecting the young mind to the natural world is great.

In Victorian England six North American grey squirrels were released around 1860. They multiplied and multiplied until today they number millions. The native Red British squirrel by comparison has shrunk in its territory and range. It now only numbers tens of thousands compared to the invader. The invading Grey squirrel is bigger, spreads a sexual disease, is more aggressive, more adaptable and has driven the Red to the edge of extinction.
Similarly the Himalaya balsam plant was brought over as a kind of exotic "orchid" by Victorian scientists. It escaped from its greenhouse and gradually spread along river banks and streams of England. In Europe it has no predatory insects or caterpillars. As an invading species it smothers native plants and drives them to extinction.
The rhododendron plant, a native of India, prized for its exotic blooms has also "jumped the fence" of the English garden. Its leaves secrete cyanide and poison and smother the native British plants. Instead of bluebell woods and forests flush with celandines and wood anenomes there now exist dark, ugly and sterile thickets of the foreign rhododendron.
Scientists de Witt, Lotka and Volterra show that invading species always has the upper hand and ultimately drive the native species to extinction.
Since plants and lower animals have no mind their fate is sealed. But what of conscious DNA. What if the red squirrel decide to fight back? or the bluebell?
The problem of the invasive species has but one solution. Extermination.
In New Zealand the introduced red deer were wreaking havoc with the unique ecology. The solution was a complete cull of the red deer via helicopter born snipers.
So successful were the New Zealand conservationists they were hired to cull the goats on Galapagos Island. Again they were successful in preserving rare species of giant tortoise.
What this all shows is that "were there is a will, there is a way" in curbing the invasive species.