In the old days...

Jason: In the old times, why couldn't people makes clocks, how did they tell time?
Me: What do you think they used?
Jason: The sun - they knew what time it was by whether the sun was up or down. They also used sundials to tell time. But they didn't have calendars, right?
Me: They used the moon as a calendar - when the moon was whole again, they knew that a new month had started.
Jason: Good thing we didn't live back then, because we don't know how to tell time by the sun and days by the moon!

Sydney: In the old times of the Pilgrims, kids had to work all of the days – cooking, cleaning, planting, everything. They didn’t just get to play. But we can, we have freedom.
Me: What is freedom?
Sydney: It means that you can play if you want to, or go to school. You can do anything you want – like play or do video games -- if your mom says it’s okay.

[Note: Right before bed I was reading the kids a Magic Tree House book about Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims, that is what sparked them to ask me independently about the "old times"]