Conscientious parents are always searching for ways to teach lessons to their children that will be useful throughout their lives and in the rearing of their own children. This account of a young boy’s adventures for three summers from the 1950’s spent with caring relatives reveals important lessons from seemingly mundane situations that cannot be learned from a book or a classroom. A return to the principles of this simpler time may be just what a modern family needs to insure that their children advance into adulthood with a foundation of timeless and proven character-building traits.