When a child is under four years of age is the ideal time to gain this confidence, for then there is nothing personal in anything you say; all interests are general. There is no shyness or consciousness of sex. If this has been done, when they take up the study of the birds more could be told them of the sexual parts; that as some day he was to be a father he was made differently than mother or sister because he had a different part to do in life’s work. That he must keep well and grow strong in order to do this work. There need be no mystery about the sexual truths; impress upon it the sacredness of the process. There is no greater crime against a child than for a parent to allow a child to flounder about with half truths, gathered from polluted and corrupt associates. Be deliberate in giving the child the truth, as much of it as he can take at a time, or as little _but have it the truth_. You will be confronted with questions concerning the vilest words of the street. Tell him frankly their meaning in your own clean way, and the correct word to use in its place. You will find when his curiosity has been satisfied he will no longer be curious or have any special desire to use these words. Every child first turns to its mother in confidence for all these questions. Never turn him off with a slight or embarrassed answer; just rely upon your knowledge, your natural knowledge, and answer him. Every mother can do it. Do not make a Sunday School lesson of these teachings, only to be taught once a week on very solemn occasions. Children hate being talked at; just be natural, simple, interesting, informal, and as often as the opportunity arrives. This confidence and early understanding will bind you together far beyond that most difficult period, puberty, and enable you to strengthen the child’s ideals of manhood and womanhood. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WHAT EVERY GIRL SHOULD KNOW by Margaret H. Sanger CONTENTS =Introduction= =Girlhood=— Physical Growth Mental Development =Puberty=— Generative Organs, Uterus, Ovaries, etc. Menstruation and its Disorders =Sexual Impulse=— Masturbation Sexual Impulse in Animals—in Men. Its significance in Love =Reproduction=— Growth of the Life Cell in the Uterus Hygiene of Pregnancy—Miscarriage =Some of the Consequences of Ignorance and Silence=— Continence in Young Men Gonorrhoea Syphilis 50 cents cloth bound Address: =The Woman Rebel, 34 Post Avenue, N. Y. City= THE WOMAN REBEL NO GODS NO MASTERS