I enjoyed telling my two the facts of life, though I could have done without the disgust that dawned on six-year-old daughter’s face, starring as she then was, in her drama-queen diva stage.

Realising how daddy and mummy produced her was way too much detail.

Seven-year-old Son took it in his scientific stride, not particularly interested because there was nothing to take apart to find how it worked.

It all happened naturally from bedtime questions, and a gentle story about guinea pigs did the trick, plus an explanation of a loving God giving his beloved humans a rather beautiful, sometimes amusing, way to produce more of their kind.

It didn’t seem appropriate at that time to show them Kama Sutra-like drawings of the sex act, nor introduce them to the full range of sexual orientation and practices.

Today’s five-year-old-plus kids, sadly, may not be so blessed if the latest council-approved sex education books and packs become the norm in this weird era of sexualising our young.

Thankfully, sex education in infant and primary schools is still left to teachers and governors, who can locally, and usually wisely, decide what’s appropriate as their young charges are bombarded by a sex-mad society.

However, not if many politicians and national educationalists get their way; incidentally, the very experts who’ve made such a mess of sex education causing us to top the European League for teen pregnancies for years.

“Too much, too young,” is my top-tip booklet for anxious parents after its publication this week.

You can get it from www.christian.org.uk, and it’s full of advice plus illustrations of the age-inappropriate material.