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第12章_性教育 - 幼児教育の基本は種々の質問に答えること
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Pt.2 Education of Character - Chap.12 Sex educationAnswering questions is a major part of sex education. Two rules cover the ground. First, always give a truthful answer to a question ', secondly, regard sex-knowledge as exactly like any other knowledge. If the child asks you an intelligent question about the sun or the moon or the clouds, or about motor-cars or steam-engines, you are pleased, and you tell him as much as he can take in. This answering of questions is a very large part of early education. But if he asks you a question connected with sex, you will be tempted to say "Hush, hush". If you have learnt not to do that, you will still answer briefly and drily, perhaps with a trifle of embarrassment in your manner. The child at once notices the nuance, and you have laid the foundations of prurience. You must answer with just the same fulness (= fullness) and naturalness as if the question had been about something else. Do not allow yourself to feel, even unconsciously, that there is something horrid and dirty about sex. If you do, your feeling will communicate itself to him. He will think, necessarily, that there is something nasty in the relations of his parents ; later on he will conclude that they think ill of the behaviour which led to his existence. Such feelings in youth make happy instinctive emotions almost impossible, not only in youth, but in adult life also. |
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