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opportunities for instruction and development of 

 the character become present at this time. 



First of all, parents need to be reminded of the 

 naturalness and wholesomeness of the sex instincts 

 in adolescent boys and girls. They must be urged 

 to provide carefully for its natural growth through 

 the proper commingling of the sexes in a social way, 

 and yet there must be preserved in the young lives 

 just enough strangeness and mystery about the sex 

 matters as to indulge the poetic and the romantic 

 aspects of the unfolding natures. It need not, 

 therefore, be a matter of worry and unusual concern 

 to parents if their fifteen-year-old son and a neigh- 

 bor's thirteen-year-old daughter show pronounced 

 tendencies to be "crazy in love" with each other. 

 However, this situation furnishes most fitting oppor- 

 tunities for teaching the boy courtly manners, gal- 

 lantry, consideration for women of all ages; and 

 that through and by means of his own personal ex- 

 perience. In fact, this stirring period of sex-love 

 opens up in the mind of the boy reflections that tend 

 to run out into every possible avenue of his future life. 



Likewise, the girl. That same little girl who 

 shortly ago hated boys and declared she would never 

 have anything to do with them is now manifesting 

 much interest in the youth of her acquaintance. This 

 thing cannot be laughed to scorn, or scolded away, 

 or whipped out of the life of either boy or girl. Its 

 roots are in the sex organs as well as in the heart. 



