To think Mums who...

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kiss on the School run as if you had not seen each other for month (yet only saw each other the night before) are attention seekers? I never understood why people do it. It just feels way over the top and somehow a bit of show to others?

I think the kiss cheek greeting has become more common in England over the last decade or so. I don't think it's showy or anything like that to those who choose to do it. It's just a way of greeting each other.

Where I'm from it would be weird not to do it! And then you do it again when you say goodbye!

If someone tried to kiss me at the school gates I'd recoil in horror.
They wouldn't do it again.
I wouldn't accept it from men or women tbh.
Others can do what they like though.

I don’t like it either but only because the clique mums use it to show u r not a proper friend. They will kiss 4 people in a talking group of 6 for example!!!

That is all....

I would find it a bit off but I'm not a touchy feely person. I'd just keep it to myself though.

They could have had a phone call, text or met up the previous evening and discussed something important or emotional. Maybe one of them is going through something and leaning on the other parent a bit in a way that bonds them a bit more intimately. Maybe they're just closer friends than you realise. Maybe not. You have literally no idea.

In any event, I have no idea why you'd be in the least bit bothered. I wouldn't even notice this kind of thing.

Oh I would never kiss another school mum I'm not that affectionate. However I know it's an issue I have and I'd not think twice seeing anyone else do it. Why would two friends kiss for attention.

I always kiss and hug certain friends, it's just something we've always done. Certainly not attention seeking, not remotely bothered what others think!

Urgh, kissing you're not at a Chanel fashion show, it's the bloody school run.

I have never ever seen this at school.

I do this with some friends, but not mums on the nursery drop off, no. But that’s because they aren’t really what I’d call friends yet.

One friend of mine stays over with us sometimes and she always kisses me goodnight and in the morning. I think it’s nice actually. My own sister doesn’t kiss me hello though unless she genuinely can’t avoid it! Different strokes etc.

Kissing friends fine but I wouldn't want to kiss DS's nursery teachers. Maybe a huh goodbye to his 121 but she's Italian so culturally I feel she'd be more open to it and its a different dynamic with a 121 than a teacher

Not kissing/ hugging in greeting would be attention seeking among my friends.

Some of my friends kiss and hug each other literally every time that they see each other. I am not really comfortable with it, so they don't do it to me .

I make sure that I hug DD every day so that she grows up used to it unlike me!

I wouldn't instigate but I have French and Spanish friends who absolutely would, for them it's a cultural norm. Talking about people who've lived in the UK for a number of years.

No not attention seeking. I kiss my kids and tell them i love them at the school gates, esp when its a Friday and i know they will be away till Monday with their father. I dont do it for attention, and frankly its no one else business.

I'm Italian, it comes naturally to hug/kiss everyone!

I hold myself back with English friends who are less touchy feely though.

One of the things I have learned on MN are the strange things others are judging you for.
I HATE air kisses. But genuine affection is good.

It’s totally normal to kiss hello to people you know in my world at least. Which seems to be a fairly normal one

Allalittlebitshit2019 kissing other mums not the kids

YANBU OP. A firm handshake, or better still, a curt nod with gritted teeth would be far more British seemly.