Despite the whole cult thing I think my mom actually did a pretty great job of teaching me some things as a kid, before I was in the cult
Like, she taught me what HIV and AIDs and other immune diseases were when I asked (a friend had one of them, I think) and just explained how they can make someone's life different, not making any sort of claims about what kind of person someone with any of those is
She also taught me that nudity isn't a bad thing all the time, when me and my brother watched My Neighbor Totoro as kids and asked about the scene where the main family took a bath together. She just said that some people in other countries feel differently about when it's okay to be naked, which is fine
In addition to that, she also didn't dissuade me from learning how pregnancy worked, even though she phrased how it gets started as "combining genetic material," which I think is a very funny way to phrase it to a five year old. We went to an interactive science museum a lot growing up, and they had an exhibit explaining what pregnancy is, and I remember feeling perfectly comfortable knowing that growing up
Things changed as I got older and the sway of church and the later cult got to her, like arguments about why I couldn't run around shirtless in the backyard at seven. But in general, she did a really good job at the start and I'm really glad she did, and even more glad that she's kept growing and changing and learning new stuff, because that's who she really is at the end of the day