24 The Time to Build 



to study the lives of children and young people that 

 some particular youth who a few months ago was 

 a spendthrift, indifferent of his future needs and wel- 

 fare, is now heard to declare emphatically again and 

 again that he must get into business, must save and 

 invest his means and provide for his future needs. 

 So, there is not a little evidence in effect that we have 

 here another inner development of the nerve mech- 

 anism. And the time is most fit and opportune for 

 the parents to exhaust every reasonable effort to dis- 

 cover what the youth is best suited for as a life prac- 

 tice and to guide him on toward the realization of 

 that purpose. Much more will be said in another 

 chapter in respect to the choice of a vocation. 



REFERENCES 



Rural parents who develop an intensive interest in the child-training 

 problems will find it most profitable to read somewhat extensively in the 

 texts that are not too direct but that give a careful treatment of the 

 fundamental principles of child psychology. King's and O'Shea's books 

 listed below are of this special character. For a fuller list, see Chapter VI. 



The Child : A Study in the Evolution of Man. A. F. Chamberlain. 

 Chapter IV, "The Period of Childhood." Scribner. A sound and 

 somewhat scholarly treatment. 



Boy Wanted. Nixon Waterman. Chapter I, "The Awakening"; 

 Chapter II, "Am I a Genius ?" Forbes & Co., Chicago. 



Education of the Central Nervous System. Reuben P. Halleck. Chap- 

 ter VII, "Special Sensory Training." American Book Company. 



The Moral Life. Arthur E. Davies. Chapter V, "Motive: The Be- 

 ginnings of Morality." Review Publishing Company, Baltimore. 



Psychology. J. R. Angell. Chapter XVI, "The Important Human 

 Instincts." Holt. 



