THE FRUIT OF THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE

I just got this email from a sibling this morning....of a book telling kids (presumably...) ....about how baby's are made...it is very straight forward (and German), and shows everything, but as a cool well done kids book (in a language of pictures they can understand...)...HOW GREAT it would have been to have had sex revealed in this matter of fact way...so you could enter your teenage years with at least something less to freak out about....(I am speaking from my own experience, or lack thereof...).

I have thought on it recently: about the nature of knowledge...and the fact that WHEN a child comes to an adult and asks about, say, SEX, that they are ready to know...JUST BY THE FACT THAT THEY HAVE ASKED.
When an adult denies them that knowledge, you are putting a barricade across their progress forward. And I wonder at the motives for this: ONE, that parent/ adult is not ready to let go, or see their child as becoming something else...OR TWO: POWER, and this is scary, because then you have to wonder at what sort of power...

When my cousin was on the cusp of becoming a teenager, he came to me and my sister and asked us about sex-thangs (and it was while walking outdoors..what is it about THE SEX TALK and the OUTDOORS..??)...(inside I thought OH MY GOD!! I get to give him the talk!!). It was cool because we both made sure to be very matter of fact about it..."It's no big deal...", "You will understand..", "It's nothing to freak out about..." etc. etc. etc....(How ironic that then I was still in THE CLOSET!!!).
Funny, I haven't asked him about that, if our providing him with knowledge he was seeking help in any way....

I hope is did....