Do you kiss your kids on the lips

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Mine are 8 and 10.

Myself, DH, My Mum and Step Dad Sister and Brother in Law kiss my kids on the lips.

My brother and sister in law prefer to kiss them on the cheek.

They prefer not to kiss DH family at all so don't.

If they don't feel like giving family a kiss they won't. It's just something they have always done.

My mum sometimes kisses me on the lips and I kissed my grandparents on the lips until they passed away.

My friend has said she's never kissed her boys on the lips.

Mine are girls not that it makes a difference.

No never, my sister was seriously ill at 2 with the herpes simplex virus like @serins daughter. We were brought up with how dangerous a kiss on the lips could be and I have always practiced it.
Again, I am another one who doesnt think its wrong if others want to do it.

No not anymore as my daughter is 10 ,but I did when she was a cute little toddler .

No, that's for romantic kisses

No one in my family kisses except the small kids (obv we kiss our own kids I just mean extended family)

My 6 year old still kisses me on the lips but 11 and 13 year old barely let me kiss them at all. If they do allow a kids it's usually forehead or top of head if their majesties are happy to bestow me with a quick cuddle.

Enjoy that closeness as long as they'll allow it!!

My kids saw my mum without her teeth I'm not long ago. I don't think they'll ever go see her face again....traumatised!!

yes. And I kiss my parents on the lips.

No, we're all cheek kissers here. DC don't seem to mind.

One of my friends has three boys and the youngest (2) occasionally does that face-grab-smash thing where he kisses me on the mouth with his mouth open when he says goodbye, that's a bit of a 'wooooah' one because she thinks it's cute and I think I'm being assaulted by a tiny romancer.

I don't see the uproar about people kissing their DC on the lips if that's how they're comfortable, though.

Yes we do x

No, that's for romantic kisses

Haha! There is literally nothing romantic in the way a toddler gives lip kisses.

Why wouldn't you want your husband kissing other women and other children on the lips LotsaDo?

For the same reason I wouldn't want him to share a bed with anyone other than me and DS, we're close family. I think it's odd you can't understand that. There's an intimacy in kissing on the lips but that doesn't have to be sexual at all. I kiss toddler DS on the lips and will stop when he wants me to. I don't kiss my parents on the lips but did when I was a child. I have no problem with someone saying that they are uncomfortable kissing their own children on the lips but I think it's deeply offensive to suggest that it's always sexual.

Nope. Babies and small children have died when people with cold sores have kissed them on the lips.

Of course I do. What strange sexualised thoughts people must have to think that there is something wrong with kissing your child on the lips. Utterly bizarre. I kiss my parents on the lips too. But I’m not English so maybe that’s it.

No I don't, I actually find the idea of kissing my kids on the lips repulsive, I wouldn't openly judge others bit I do think 'yuck' when I see people do it.

I kiss my 3-year-old son on the lips, and so does his dad. My son has recently discovered kisses on the lips and is so keen to give them and I wouldn't dream of telling him no. I kissed my parents on the lips till I was like 12 and always enjoyed it so I'll let him do it for as long as he likes. I'm not sure how I'd feel about others kissing him on the lips though, from a germ point of view, but no-one has tried to do it so it's not been an issue.

No, never. My parents and family never did this with me as a child. DH's didn't either. We've always done kisses on cheeks or forehead.

Both my parents get cold sores, and would never have knowingly exposed me to that. I don't get cold sores but still wouldn't kiss my own, or anyone else's children on the lips.

I think it really odd that people on here are kissing their teen/adult kids on the lips. As kids grow up, don’t they develop a natural ‘ick’ factor for doing that and naturally migrate to the cheeks? My mum used to try and kiss my children on the lips and they couldn’t bear it from once they were 7 or 8.

Yep, family of lip kissers here! Whatever people are comfortable with.

No. The only person I kiss on the lips is my DH. Everybody else gets showered with kisses but never the lips.

I find it weird (and a bit sad tbh) some people think all kissing is sexual.

When DH and I kiss goodnight or when one of us goes to work, it isn't sexual. We do that in front of the kids!

@User202004 I don’t think all kidding is sexual but I do think lip kissing is for sexual partners only. Even if it’s not full on snogging

Kissing! Ffs I’m rubbish at typing.

I don’t think people even think it’s sexual. It’s just an intimate thing. And it’s moist! I would actively find it unpleasant to be kissed on the lips by anyone other than dh.

@Mascotte I sort of see what you mean, I don't kiss any other adults on the lips, stopped kissing family members as older children/young teens, and I doubt I would kiss my children on the lips as teens+. But I think kissing a young child goodnight is similar to kissing a partner goodnight in that it is filled with platonic love, it isn't sexual, that said there are no other adults I'd comfortably kiss on the lips but that's more to do with intimacy than seeing it as sexual, I don't like hugging anyone but my nuclear family either.

@User202004 I’m totally with you on the hugging thing! One of the silver linings of the present situation 😃

Haha! There is literally nothing romantic in the way a toddler gives lip kisses

That is so true! I don't go to kiss my 2 year old on the lips but he frequently tries to do it to me...

No. Definitely not.