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[ptb_ptb]

Simple(ish) idea. Give children a tendency to spend some of the time hanging around workshops that are in use. Particularly workshops being used by one of their parents. Give them a tiny amount of the relevant skill from observation.

Primary advantage: Children that fall into strange moods won't always make worthless earrings and suchlike trinkets.

[Timeless Bob]

Maybe treat children like pets: trainable as "apprentices" who hang around a specific workshop or other while they're being "trained" by someone with that profession.  When they finally turn into an adult, they are novice -insert profession here- rather than unskilled peasants.  Of course, any dwarves that were carefree as children may still grow into unskilled peasants, but the ability to continue professions through incremental training rather than through the "v" screen would make dwarven society less seemingly arbitrary.