SEX EDUCATION
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—It is encouraging to those interested in improved education to find the Spectator dealing with the difficult problem of answering children's questions on sex. Your readers must be grateful to you for your wise and helpful article on " Sex Education " in your " Personal Problems " of November 10th.
It may interest others to know that we have talked to our own children on these lines with the happiest results. We have recently had the joy of a third baby, and one of the happiest experiences has been the share which our boy, aged six, and girl, three and a-half, have taken in the prepara- tions and in looking forward to baby's coming. Our little boy has asked us many and searching questions, all of which we have tried to answer truthfully, and as far as we can judge nothing but good has come of it. '
I am sure that many of the difficulties which undoubtedly exist in helping children on this subject are really created by adults. The child himself is by nature free and happy about it—interested in it as he is interested in finding out other wonders in his world—and if they meet him in his own spirit they find the difficulties clear away.—I am, Sir, Doses M. Coin, Rydal, Snaithing Park Road, Sheffield.
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