lOO MAN, THE ANIMAL 



have not been chums before this time, it is usually 

 idle to try suddenly to gain the boy's confidence 

 at this period. It is well to keep in mind, how- 

 ever, that some one will probably have his con- 

 fidence and the best that the parent can do, if he 

 does not have his child's confidence, is to see that 

 he has wholesome friends. 



This is one of the justifications for the Boy 

 Scout movement and similar organizations in 

 which the adolescent boy and girl have the advice 

 of older boys and girls who have successfully 

 passed this stage. For the present generation at 

 least teachers must take an active part in this phase 

 of education. The method that is proving to be 

 most successful is individual instruction, the 

 women taking the girls and the men the boys. 

 Such instruction comes naturally for the biology 

 teacher but the task is greater than he alone can 

 undertake and in many schools biology is taught 

 after sex instruction should have commenced. 



It is also the best judgment of those who have 

 had widest experience in sex instruction that all 

 questions should be answered fully and frankly 

 but that it is unwise to anticipate questions that 

 will naturally arise as the child grows older. To 

 discuss, for example, the question of prostitution 

 with a boy of ten to twelve is an illustration of 

 bad sex teaching. Information on prostitution 

 naturally follows with the onset of adolescence. 



