Do you kiss your kids?

I kiss on my kids all the time. I teasingly will kiss them all over their faces and hands sometimes. I kiss them goodnight, and even have my own nightly ritual of going up to their rooms and kissing them in their sleep before I go to bed. I kiss owies better, and love when they just come up and kiss me on their own. My husband kisses all the kids goodnight, but probably doesn't kiss them much other than that, though he hugs them a lot. I grew up kissing my grandparents and parents a lot (when we'd first see them or were saying good bye), but I think I stopped kissing them on the mouth when I was around 10, just of my own accord. Personally, I'm not really comfortable with my kids kissing other relatives, besides us and grandparents, though I'm fine with hugs. If they do, I don't say anything. But I don't at all push them to do it.

 

We mostly kiss goodnight and goodbye to the kids..and during the day for whatever reason. Our 3 youngest we still kiss on the lips but our older two we kiss on the cheek. The only other person that kisses our young kids on the lips is my mom. All other adults kiss the kids on the cheek.
We also do a lot of hugging.

 

I kiss my kids good morning, good night, hello, good bye, if they get hurt and just if they're looking cute. I usually kiss them on the cheek, on top of the head, or beside the mouth, but I kiss their "owies" where ever they happen (they always request a "kiss on it" when they get hurt). One thing I DO NOT do is force kisses, especially with friends and family. When I was a kid I was forced to kiss every adult friend and extended family member hello, good bye, and/or good night and I HATED IT! I don't want to force affection from my kids.

 

We kiss ours often. Mostly on the cheek or forehead. Sometimes a quick peck on the lips. I assume the lips will eventually phase out but at two, I am not worried about it.

 

I'm suprised my two have any cheeks left. I kiss them all over too though, but mostly on the cheeks and forehead. I can't remember my parents kissing me, they did hug me up til this day.

 

Ditto This!!!!

 

We are never low on kisses over here. :ibiggrin:
Julia

 

Lip kissers, and all over really. My family is a bunch of lip kissers, aunts and uncles and my father. My SIL is a lip kisser too as is my DH but he was not raised that way. I don't know, maybe to some entirely too much lip action in my family.

 

I kiss my kids good morning, good afternoon, good night, just for a hug.... a LOT throughout the day. They spend 10 hours at daycare, I get as much as I can! And yes, I kiss on the lips. DH does to for the most part. We won't when they get older (they're 2) but for now I don't see a problem with it.

I was never kissed that I can remember. In fact my upbringing was pretty free of any type of loving nurture from about 2nd grade on. That's probably why I do it so much with my kids cuz I don't remember getting enough of it. DH was smothered by his mother (can we say Momma's boy?? LOL) but no one else....

Go with what you and DH decide on. Whatever YOU think is normal, is. Find a middle ground. Both DH and I have deviated pretty far from how we were raised and have found our own 'way' to raise our kids. Whatever you decide on will be right for you and your family.

 

kisses all the time were normal for me growing up... still is. I give the kids a ton of kisses and loves all the time and so does my family to them as well. Just how i was raised.... very affectionately.

 

None of my family are kissers, but DH's family are. In our house we all kiss on the lips all day long. I kiss my boys non stop all over all day! I'm sure at some point we will stop the lip kissing but right now it is soooo cute to watch them pucker up. I don't kiss anyone other than DH on the lips so I'm not even sure how it started, oh well I just can't get enough of them.