Important Life Lessons

Important Life Lessons

by Michael Coughlin

Life’s lessons come at all times.  Sometimes they are welcome, sometimes difficult to swallow. In any case, they add to our understanding of the world.  Among the lessons I learned early on  came courtesy of my older brother who happened to have a paper route–actually, two of them.  I became an unwilling assistant on both routes, but I did learn.  As I conclude in the pamphlet: “Child labor isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, but it does teach life lessons, even if they are ones we’d just as soon never have learned.