CHAPTER XIX.

THE MOTHER THE TEACHER.

Food, clothing and restraint not the mother’s full duty to her children.—Teach them self-knowledge.—Mother should give honest answers to honest inquiries.—Ignorance leads to vice, and vice to ruin.—When shall children be taught physical truths.—How to teach little children physical truth.—Questions of sex should be the most sacred things of their knowledge.—How to teach the children in this sacred way.—Mothers should teach their boys as well as the girls.—How boys grow away from their mothers.—How mothers may win and hold their boys.—An honest mother’s reward, 213-228