The sex education of children : a book for parents / by Mary Ware Dennet.

  • Mary Dennett
Date:
1932
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: The sex education of children : a book for parents / by Mary Ware Dennet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    converted into constructive activity than is brood¬ ing changed into positive, healthy spontaneity. The children in whose babyhood the seeds of perverted concepts have been sown, and in whose childhood the growth has developed until a real sense of dirt regarding sex is established, reach their adolescence prepared all too effectively for solidifying these concepts into a sadly damaging handicap, which may be life-long. A child’s entire life is more or less like a photographic film in its sensitivity to environment, but babyhood and adolescence are peculiarly absorbent stages, and are the periods when parents are most under obligation to be and do the very best they can. With the coming of adolescence, the child begins to wake not only to the physiological meaning of sex but to the emotional susceptibilities and urges. His observation of emotional expression in others becomes sharpened, so that what he sees and hears then makes a profound impact. If what he sees and hears is of an unfortunate sort, the result is doubly bad because of the already existing background of childhood concepts. Impressions which otherwise would roll off, leaving only a momentary or superficial tarnish, sink into
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