And least of all must there be a cry: "You see, dear, you don't understand.

When you are older--" A child's sagacity is better than an adult understanding, anyhow.
Of course it is ten times criminal to tell young children facts about sex, or to implicate them in adult relationships.

A child has a strong evanescent sex consciousness.

It instinctively writes impossible words on back walls.

But this is not a fully conscious mental act.