to cringe deeply when a child tries to high-five me?

[YouBloodyWolf]

I'm a late-30s Caucasian male from the burbs.

Look the doctors do it to your kids here.....imagine that.US.
I love a good high five when my son does a big dragon pooh as he calls them.
Who can knock the celebration of the small successes that make life less grind and more high five.
Just adjust you attitude wolf and you could embrace the high five.
We have and it is not so bad at all.

Pitmountainpony - you high-five your son when he does a poo???

Good to see some more people agreeing, although I take issue with Bulldog's reasoning. Nothing wrong with absorbing idiom from other cultures, yo.

The evil part of me sometimes wants to return a high-five as a raised palm with a barked 'Heil!', but I've always resisted so far.

PLEASE do the heil. Please.

How about 'touch' then OP?
My 16mo can do them

kayano that is v

Yes wolf. He has just potty trained so if he requests a high five for shitting in the appropriate context he gets one.you are really missing a trick here.
Makes shitting a whole lot more fun I can tell you.

YAB a bit U. DS learnt to do hi-fives when he was still tiny, pre-verbal - it's just like doing half of Pat-a-cake. Wasn't my choice to teach him (not really my thing either back then) but he learnt and I wasn't about to piss on his parade by not returning it.

Now we use it as reflex/reaction training - he tries to hi-five me, I move. (he's 4.8 now, it's fine, he loves it, especially when he gets me and "wins" )

My children have taught our dog to 'high five'. Seriously.

I generally refuse to high five anyone. I have found myself mellowing, which is slighty unsettling.
DD thinks it is hysterical if she catches me out. I am normally a fan of handshakes and, slightly strangely the Swiss three kiss.

do it!

Do people still high five? I thought it was all about the fist bump these days.

Doesn't bother me either way. As long as they don't try to do that social kiss thing, that I do find awkward.

Fist bumps look like you're trying too hard to be cool. High fives look and sound awesome! And they're probably retro cool too

The problem with big giving after a poo is surely that you can't be certain they've washed their hands.

big giving? WTF? High fiving.

i teach. high fives from teenagers are preferable to hugs. best of all - a smile, 'hi miss', or a shirt being tucked in as they see you...

Wooooah I thought my clapping thread from the other day was controversial!

I went to get measured for a maternity bra a few months ago. When asked, I told the woman my usual bra size (32E) and she made me give her a high five. In the middle of the shop floor. I could have died.

That sounds deserving of a high five to me...

youbloody YABU get over it

Whupang daddy !

Err Me and DH high five. When we get good news or one of us tells a joke. It's like a mark of respect or appreciation between us. It is cringy but we are geeks.

I publically got left hanging by a precociously self aware 4 year old. I felt like a real turd.

I now never invite a high five, but automatically slap any hand held aloft so nobody else has to suffer the humiliation I felt. It can be embarrassing at bus stops, but you can never tell if people are hanging or hailing.

shatners

Shatners, if you were that policeman at the Olympics left hanging by my DD, I am truly sorry.

But it was piss funny.