Im watching "the View' on tv at the min and they are having a discussion about parents kissing their kids on the lips...
Do you?
Why or why not?
I do, i've never known it to be any other way!
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Im watching "the View' on tv at the min and they are having a discussion about parents kissing their kids on the lips...
Do you?
Why or why not?
I do, i've never known it to be any other way!
I do :-) Why ouldn't you?
Me too! But avoid it when she's slobering on me! LOL
Most of the time its me kissing them usually on the forehead, cheeks etc. but today before she went to bed I said GIMME A KISS and it was a lip kiss. So cute. Were they debating if it was the thing to do or not?? I've never really thought about it before. J goes the whole mouth open fish kiss so I prefer to kiss him on the chubba cheeks than end up saturated :rofl:
smack bang on his big lips, even if he drools on me lol
i thought i was wierd!! haha they were saying some people think its innapropriate.. like the father kissing his daughter on the lips etc..
Lip kisses all round here, even big open mouth sloppy kisses from DD2, I love them all :)
Usually a lip kiss before bed or sometimes just because but otherwise it's just little cheek or forehead kisses.
I don't agree with other people kissing my kids on the lips. I find it repulsive.
I dont mind my family kissing the kids on the lips, my mum, sister etc.. but no one else
I think that's probably the issue - how do the kids know when it is okay NOT to accept a kiss on the lips? But in saying that, its so awfully cute when DD comes up to me for one!!
We are a family of kisses, LOL!! DD & DS are very into kisses at the moment. DD will tell you where she want her kiss where DS just come straight for you mouth open, drooling everywhere and slobbers all over your lips. It's just gorgeous!! I'm ok with family and extremely close friends kissing my kids but no one else.
My kids kiss me on the lips all the time, but I usually kiss them on their checks or forehead. I just feel a bit awkward. My parents had coldsores when we were growing up so I guess it's just habit that I don't. My parents managed to avoid giving us coldsores and I don't like other people kissing my kids on the lips for this reason though I think coldsore viruses can be passes on by kissing in general, not just on the lips.
Actually, I just remembered - DD1 sat on DH's lap the other day and asked for a kiss, which he gave her and she said 'No Daddy. Open your mouth.' DH was like no way. So she started trying to pry his mouth open with her fingers. :rofl: It was sooooo funny.
Sorry a bit off topic, but thought I would share. Poor DH didn't know what to do :)
kisses on lips here...slober and all :)
Give me the slobber kiss i say :)
I seriously think the world is getting out of control with the cabbage they are coming out with :shakehead:
I kiss my littlies on the lips, man they aim me up! lol
My big kids [well 2 of them that aren't emarressed to kiss their Mum lol] kiss me on the cheek, and I kiss them on the cheek.
Usually on the lips here with many cheeks and foreheads and hands for good measure. I think it is lovely.
Lippy kisses here too!
This thread reminds me of a comment my Mum made once
"you should never kiss a baby on the lips"
It came from generations ago when there were lots of diseases that were fatal back then such as Colds, Flu, Polio, Chicken Pox and all the things that there are now immunisations for now.
It came about as you never new you had the virus until you were gravely ill, so kissing a baby on the lips thus passing on your saliva would then give them the whatever you had and usually ended up fatal :( .
On saying that....I kiss heaps and heaps! Not always on the lips, everwhere I can. I loove kissing my kids and they giggle and squirm when I just can't stop!
DD1 refuses to be kissed anywhere but her lips!!
I kiss their forehead, but when they come to kiss me it's on the lips. I'm not sure why I don't kiss them on the lips? lol.
Umm no I don't. Dunno why, I've never actually thought about it. I was told never to kiss a newborn on the lips, and I dunno - I kiss my kids a lot, on their cheeks, neck, forehead, back of head,.... but yeah, never their lips.
On the lips here!! My whole family kisses on the lips. I kiss my mum and dad and brothers on the lips, lol. But not other people, then I'd be really strange. We were talking about this the other day with my mum's partner whose family don't kiss on the lips, they think it's gross and weird. I think they are weird for thinking anything strange about kissing a child on the lips.
I am not comfortable with kissing kids on the lips. I much prefer kisses on forehead or cheeks or arms or feet.
I am extremely uncomfortable with people other than parents kissing kids on the lips.
lots of lip kisses here, kisses all over really. i think it's a sad world we live in if some people frown upon it.
:yeahthat: if people don't like that i kiss my baby on her lips then they shouldn't look nobody has the right to tell another person how they show their affection for their children.:
And i kiss my neices and nephews on the lips, they come running up to me give me a hug and then a kiss. I've never thought of it as weird its just the way the family is. We greet each other with a hug and a kiss on the cheek but the kids are different. But we wouldn't let people outside of the family do it though.
I don't like people kissing me on the lips, unless it's Scott. I don't expect I'll mind much when it's my own baby kissing me in that gorgeous slobbery way, but I always get grossed out when family or friends try to kiss me anywhere but the cheek. Yuck.
OH MY GOSH, i just wathed this same thing and i sat there with y mouth open,i just couldnt understand what they were talking about....as if they weren't even talking english!!!! of course i kiss my children on the lips! they are my children! who the hell do people think they are to tell others that they can not kiss their children.
I know there is alot of child abuse in the world, but lets not make ever single parent feel to afraid to show affection to thier children incase some one screams child abuse! there is a right and wrong way to stop child abuse and stoping every loving parent being with a metre of thier own child...whom they love and protect daily....is the wrong way!!!!!
I havent read all the posts, but i felt so stongly about this, sorry if i offend anyone!
'DS is a lip kisser and so is DD3 (Ruby). DDs1 & 2 are happy with forehead kisses but DD3 MUST have lip kisses (she chases your mouth for them ITMS). DS comes up to me and goes MMMMMMMMMMMMwah! until I kiss him.
Good point Teni. I also don't like lip kisses except from DH. For those who are comfortable with lip kissing, is lip kissing also common in their friend/family circles?
And that is gorgeous! Why would anyone think that this is gross?:
Heres a comment i read on the forum that made my blood boilThe bold bit is what made me so mad, how dare they tell us how we show affection to our children and to make it dirty! i was kissed as a child, when being dropped off at school we had to kiss our mum good bye. I was never embarassed or thought "wrong thoughts" because shes my mum.:
I think kissing a child on the lips is unacceptable. Why kiss them on the mouth when they have two cheeks and a forehead? I believe that kissing a child on the lips should not be associated with a show of affection from a parent. Television shows our children kissing on the mouth associated with sexual feelings. Let's not confuse our children.
I'm not really comfortable doing it, for me it's the saliva thing..I don't even like DF's saliva on my lips...just a thing I have i guess! I've probably only kissed DD on the lips a few times. usually it's her cheeks because they are just so cute and squishy!
I don't have a problem with other parents kissing their kids on their lips, I just don't like doing it myself.
I don't do it, but i don't think anything is wrong with it!
I agree, its comments like the one you posted that make innocent things in the world dirty and sexualised, its similar to peoples issues with breastfeeding and saying that breast are for husbands and not for babies, that is society bending reality into some wierd sexual world where we cant do what is natural and normal....:
On the view they also said that a parent should not bath/shower with thier child as this too was wrong....well, DD bathes with either one of us EVERY day!
I don't like kissing other ppl on the lips though
Yesterday DD was sucking on the side of my chin, looked in the mirror a big purple love bite LOL oh the love
yep, all for the kiss on the lips for the kids, baby ones are the cutest!!! however we have just had a "talk" with ds1 that a little kiss like mummy and daddy give you is a good kiss, but you dont try kiss your brother the way some people do. (u know the love sick ones that cant keep there mouths off each other, even at the shop or on the train.) and yes that talk was interesting to say the least!
Lips. Cheeks. Nose. Neck. Arms. Heads. Never thought about it! I've never noticed my friends ever NOT kissing on lips.
My kids are used to being assailed with juicy lip kisses and I get lots back. Win Win.
I kiss my kids on the lips all the time..nobody will deprive me of my babies gorgeous kisses!! : )
I have though taught my kids that only mum and dad can kiss you on the lips and family kiss you on the cheeks,only because thats what me and DH are more comfortable with
DS gets lip kisses from me hundreds of times a day. He also gets kisses all over his gorgeous little face, lol! He's become really affectionate lately and loves to run up to me yelling "mumma!" and grab my face and plant a big sloppy kiss on my lips. Yep, the drool is kinda gross, but the kiss makes up for it a million times over. I'm not too worried when he tries to kiss someone else, because he's pretty selective with who he tries it with (once with my mum and once with my sister), but I wouldn't like it much if someone else tried to kiss him on the mouth. I think it may make a difference when it comes to who instigates the lip kiss. DS is just an innocent loving toddler!
I think when it comes to lip kisses and kids getting older, they probably start to get embarrassed in front of friends long before they start to see it as an act which may be thought of as 'indecent' or 'wrong'. If you grow up doing something then it's just normal for you.
Yes im in the Lets Kiss on the Lips group too ..... What is the world coming to if you cant kiss your childs lips for god sake.
Our babys are made and born (majority) through our vaginas so why are people questioning whether kissing our children on lips is appropriate or not IT GOES OVER THE TOP doesnt?
I love the wet open mouth kisses toddler give you and i like so many love kissing all my kids on lips neck face hands tummy etc
i even encourage dh to kiss our little one on the lips as that is what he loves to do .... i said i would hate DS 2 to grow up thinking it is ok to kiss mum on the lips but you cant kiss dad on the lips as its dad.....
:)