Your boy and his training

YOUR BOY AND HIS TRAINING
A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON BOY-TRAINING
BY EDWIN PULLER FORMER PRESIDENT, SCOUTMASTERS’ ASSOCIATION OF ST. LOUIS
NEW YORK LONDON D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 1916
Copyright, 1916, by D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
Printed in the United States of America
THIS VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED TO THE MEN OF TOMORROW, WITH THE HOPE THAT THE THOUGHTS EXPRESSED IN THESE PAGES WILL AID THEIR PARENTS AND TEACHERS, IN SOME DEGREE, TO A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF BOY-NATURE AND BOY-TRAINING.
The average boy is not understood by the average parent. This misunderstanding produces not only indifferent training of the boy but also soul-stress for the parent and his son. Intelligent training will improve the quality of the man into whom your son will develop. To be able to give such training, the parent must first know how. The education of the parent in the subject of boy-training is the pretentious purpose of this volume, which I approach with full consciousness of my own limitations.
This book is the result of my association with and study of large numbers of boys from ten to twenty years of age, and in it have been embodied, consciously or unconsciously, some ideas of other writers on this subject.
I have endeavored to present in elementary form a brief, practical study in adolescent psychology and its application to boy-training, written in language which the average parent, guardian or teacher can readily understand. With this end in view, there has been an elimination of technical terms, as far as may be—even at possible risk of scientific inaccuracy of statement. It will not be necessary for the average reader to peruse these pages with a dictionary at hand. They were written not for psychologists, but for parents, in the hope that a work both readable and comprehensible will acquaint the average reader with the laws governing boy-life and their application to his training with greater clarity than a work abounding in abstruse phraseology and scientific nomenclature.