"If the instructor feels any embarrassment in answering the queries of the child, he is not fitted to be the teacher, for the feeling of embarrassment will, in some subtle way, communicate itself to the child, and he will experience an indefinable sense of offended delicacy which is both unnecessary and undesirable.

Purification of one's own thought is, then, the first step towards teaching the truth purely.

Why," she adds, "is death, the gateway out of life, any more dignified or pathetic than birth, the gateway into life?
Or why is the taking of earthly life a more awful fact than the giving of life ?" Mrs.
Ennis Richmond, in a book of advice to mothers which contains many wise and true things, says: "I want to insist, more strongly than upon anything else, that it is the _secrecy_ that surrounds certain parts of the body and their functions that gives them their danger in the child's thought.

Little children, from earliest years, are taught to think of these parts of their body as mysterious, and not only so, but that they are mysterious because they are unclean.

Children have not even a name for them.
If you have to speak to your child, you allude to them mysteriously and in a half-whisper as 'that little part of you that you don't speak of,' or words to that effect.