SEX INSTRUCTION
Sir,-Replying to "Out of the Everywhere" on the subject of Sex Education I must say that I cannot conceive of a child asking about the origin of babies and not being interested in a physical explanation, I have known children, even sensitive ones, shy away from a book that made a fairy tale out of the story of our beginnings, but I have never known one shy away from the simple physical facts properly presented, The secret lies in answering the very first question simply and truthfully (but not brutally). A small child does not want details. It would neither welcome nor understand them. All he wants is a plain statement in understandable terms, given in a friendly manner and without too much emphasis, and certainly without an air of mystery. One of the few comforting things about the whole sex muddle is the easy matter-of-factness with which a _ child, unspoiled by contact with sex misinformation, will accept the simple story of its own origin.
M. R.
KENT
(Kohu Kohu). |
{In "Out of the Everywhere's" letter we inadvertently printed sub-normal for sex-normal,-Ed.]
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 202, 7 May 1943, Page 3
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184SEX INSTRUCTION New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 202, 7 May 1943, Page 3
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