How Can I Get My Very Affectionate Toddler to Stop Kissing His Daycare Friends?
How would you handle this?
How would you handle this?
“Does this look like an appropriate father/son interaction to you?”
A mom writes in asking for advice about her 3-year-old son, whom she says is overly affectionate with strangers. She says her son will hug and kiss strangers — friends of the mom’s who come over to visit, for example — and this behavior makes his mom uncomfortable. The strangers, she says, will usually laugh, which she feels encourages him to do it more. She wants to explain to him that it is not okay to kiss strangers. Any advice?
Add this to the list of controversial parenting topics. One dad in Cronulla, Australia recently caught a lot of heat for posting a gorgeous photo of himself kissing his 5-year-old daughter Amarlya on the lips.