Teaching children thinking skills, and about me and my texts

As a kid when I tried to understand what work is and what it is needed for, I kind of thought that doing something useful that some others want to pay for and that a society is a kind of sum of the work done plus similarly free time activities' sum. So I kind of though that the idea in doing work is to make the world a better place to live in. On the other hand money is an important motivation for work, so this view does not taste like moral, more like selfishness. But when I come across something that handles moral, I typically like it. I like that people have feelings, that they understand the world also emotionally which I take to be a part of a full understanding. I also like that there is some idea in doing things, that it makes sense for the world, for life. I also like that there are good possibilities in a society for good life: just make your choises, what kind of life you want, what kinds of things to do, to aasociate with and that's your work, those are your hobbies

As a kid I read adventure books which I liked very much, the ordinary children's (mostly boys' plus about animals) adventures and from knights to animals and indians. I also read detective novels which I did not like so much. I read also many cartoon books like Lucky Luke. Later my parents forced me to read science fiction novels but I did not like the people in them. Later I read some fantacy books and liked the practical life in them. I also read as a young adult New Age books which I liked very much (especially about Zen Buddhism, Chinese classic Tao-Te-Ching translated by Stephen Mitchel and Carlos Castaneda's books). Around then I read John Steinbeck's books (about farming and practical life) and poetry which I liked very much. (This was in the capital. Now I have moved to Savo.) Lately I haven't read so much, mainly the local newspaper Itä-Savo (from which I copy, i.e. learn some things about skills and local life, and women's magazine MeNaiset which I do