Before everything it is important that your child should have a good working name for these parts of his body, and for their functions, and that he should be taught to use and to hear the names, and that as naturally and openly as though he or you were speaking of his head or his foot.

Convention has, for various reasons, made it impossible to speak in this way in public.

But you can, at any rate, break through this in the nursery.

There this rule of convention has no advantage, and many a serious disadvantage.

It is easy to say to a child, the first time he makes an 'awkward' remark in public: 'Look here, laddie, you may say what you like to me or to daddy, but, for some reason or other, one does not talk about these' (only say _what_ things) 'in public.' Only let your child make the remark in public _before_ you speak (never mind the shock to your caller's feelings), don't warn him against doing so" (Ennis Richmond, _Boyhood_, p.