Show professor urges ref return urn of chores for young people present day parents have been unable to find any adequate substitute for the now nonexistent chores done by young people a generation ago as a means of developing individual responsibility club work summer camps and boy and girl scouts have hav e tried to offset the lack but have failed entirely to take the place of those menial tasks for teaching the adolescent to manage affairs on his own this view of the maturing process of children was expressed by dr kimball young professor of social psychology at the university of wisconsin the disappearance of what were known 40 years ago as chores for the y young oung lad illustrate what I 1 mean he said even in village and small town life of 1900 in most families the boy had a cow to care for chickens to feed or a garden to weed the girls learned to cook mend sew and care for the household in contrast large percentages of our young people grow up today without such obligations without even a chance to assume responsibilities for such tasks dr young declared that parents are doing their children an injustice by bringing them up without the fundamental training necessary for the freedom which society believes essential to maturity |