This early you can have an idea of your little boy’s aptitude with the games you play together with the toy train sets. When you buy a wooden train kit, one of the first things you do is to get the different parts assembled together, to come up with the toy wooden train set pictured on the package.

Take advantage of this opportunity to gauge initially what your kid's aptitude is by observing him closely, as you follow the detailed assembling instructions written on the instruction sheet accompanying the toy. Let him do certain portions of the assembly of the parts, to see if you can detect a hint or any sign of a mechanical type aptitude that sometimes shows early in a boy with such inclination.

If you see some indication of his inclination to do things on his own, as in the assembly of the wood toy trains , your boy could be an engineer perhaps in his adult life later. Many men who are in this kind of calling like mechanical engineering, or machine specialists, say they always had a keen interest for machines even as a little boy. They say this is the main reason they pursued a career with the machines.

Mechanically inclined people end up as mechanical engineers later as their profession, and if they join manufacturing companies they normally head the maintenance departments for the machines used in the mass production of the goods the company makes for sale to the public.

For those who join up as members of the crews of ocean-going vessels, they are responsible for the engines of the ship, keeping them in top working condition and in making the necessary repairs on the engines even while the ship is sailing the high seas. Ship captains are dependent on the skills of their ship engineers, their services being a matter of life and death, if they cannot restart the ship's engines in the middle of the rough seas.

When you play with your kid now with the wood train toys and you notice some kind of a mechanical aptitude in him fully developed later in his adult life with the necessary training, you can perhaps start dreaming of having a mechanical engineer for a son someday. If he happens to serve aboard a ship one day, sailing the international waters on those luxury ships running regular tourist cruises around the world, you may want to join him aboard as a special passenger.
When you find yourself aboard that luxury vessel later, you will be one special passenger the captain of the ship will regularly invite to his cabin for private meals, knowing you as the father of a most important officer of the ship, your mechanical engineer son. You might even be joining the captain in his dinners with some of the beautiful lady passengers, seeking some friendly company while in that cruise to the tropics.

All these thoughts are all in the future of your kid now playing with that wooden train toy with you. What can prevent you from letting your thoughts, and your dreams, from surging ahead of you? You are just dreaming anyway, so do not economize in that!