On the other hand, children are sometimes not interested or ready for information the adult may think they need to give. I remember as an earnest mother, leaving a book on a girl’s sexuality on my adolescent daughter’s bedside table, thinking she was old enough to require information of that kind. When I asked her what she thought of the book and the information, she looked at me blankly and said she hadn’t read it, it looked boring to her. I had to laugh.
Sheila Kohler is the author of thirteen books amongst them "Cracks" "Becoming Jane Eyre" and "Dreaming for Freud."