Owning pets and guiding kids in taking care of them can teach valuable life lessons. At least that’s what my mom told me when I was a kid and it was time to clean my gerbils’ cage.
We normally had 1 or 2 gerbils at a time when I was a preteen. They were very entertaining to watch because they were usually very active. I especially enjoyed building little tube mazes for them to run around in. Fortunately, every time the cage and tubes got clean, I got to construct new layouts. Unfortunately, I…
