Piketown Press
What Every Parent Needs to Tell Their Children About Work
The Hand Under Your Hand
Your child will spend a third of their life working. Almost no one tells them what it is for.
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About the book
Your child will spend a third of their waking life at work. Almost no one tells them what it is for. This is the book for the conversation that comes before the first job: why we work at all, and what separates a wage from a calling, a task from a craft. It follows work from the stone wall and the workbench to the screen and the gig, and asks what we lose when we treat labor as only a way to buy our way out of it.
The title comes from a small, ordinary moment. Every skill a child ever learns was first guided by an older hand resting over theirs. This is a book about that hand: the patience it carries, the dignity it teaches, and the inheritance that has nothing to do with money.
It stands beside What Every Parent Needs to Tell Their Children About Money. Where that book was about what we earn, this one is about what we make, and who we become in the making.