If you're into environmental sustainability, you may be teaching those good habits to your kids (let's hope so). Using recycled paper at home for those coloring and writing projects and using the insides of cereal boxes for finger painting are only a few ways to bestow eco habits to the kids.

These actions may seem odd to your child at first, but it paves the way to giving an explanation why it is everyone's job to help conserve resources in an age when we're overusing many of them.

I mean, how hard is it to toss all glass, plastic and newspaper into a recycling bin? The point is that it is not hard, and you may be showing others how to really contribute to the health of the planet.