Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-03-23
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HOWE RAIKS
Your ChiId's Career.
. BY "a PA d O1n
Observation-Disclosures 11INNTgNa

- Ohm doesn't like bookkeeping" she va saying to the woman beside
"A I her on the train. But l al Just determined he shall learn It,. I have
4 4 a fight with him every night. But 1 just make him go tt his night
class He wants to be a carpenter. Think of Hf'
And 70 John, who steals away whenever he car to whore houses are
building. and who put in his entire summer vacation eagerly working with
a builder. and who loves the very smell of lumber, and who re3oices at
PEELED by his mother to sta at a desk and null over figures.
He'll probably be a very bad bookkeeper, whereas. he might have
been very good carpenter.
How far is she justified in what ste is doing?
She thinks she is acting for the boys good. She honestly believes
that bookkeeping will be easier work for him, that 1t will throw him
with g. better class OF associates; in q word, that as a bookkeeper, be Will
be a peg farther up In the world than he would be as a carpenter
Bnt what after all, brings satisfaction in life? Isn't one of the things.
a relish for your work? If a IA loves his work. If his heart and soul
care a peg for social advancement He has enough individuality to pcl
out his associates. n here and ne there, wherever he goes. He will
never take them Wholesale, And to chain him to a bookkeepers desk
all his life h# to make life lose all SAVIOR for him.
When a child shows no prediction, it Is well enough for parents re
choose his work. Even then, they should carefully watch him and note
his BENT and try to choose the line of work he shows most ability for.
No other consideration should rule but what the child car do best and most
likes to do. But to deliberately try to force him out of a work upon which
his heart is set. and in which he delights, is really fraught with serious
to a catastrophe, 1t may not be apparent to the world. He may SETTLE
down alphabetically to what has been chosen for him to do, and there may
be stuff in him to do this work we'll But his life fs nevertheless q
wreck, as much a wreck to him, as though he became reckless, defiant
and fell into evil ways
This boy, If allowed to become a carpenter would probably aessr be
with the mere hand part of the work. Though this work done well
never be content merely to hammer and pound and saw. He would begin
to dream houses. He would see where those he al building could bs
improved. And he would oon want to plan them, a we'll as actually put
them together. You would find him taking an architects course--at
night, If necessary. And his mother would never need to drive him tt
these classes. In time, he would become a leader IN his craft
For it is the boy who gos to his work in this spirit who eventually
climbs to tn top If the ladder, n matter what 1t lis that he has chosen
to- do. So that the boy, Or girl either, for that matter, who shows a
decided preference for some work. not a merec childish whfm, but a love
quish it, should not be thwarted. Every aid possible should be given him
along the path he has chosen. He will one day be me of the great men
In the field of his choice.
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