Kissing your kids on the lips?

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Just interested to know what people's thoughts on this are?

Kissing your kids on the lips whether it be mother to son or father to daughter and if you find it ok at any age or if there's an age where you think it's no longer appropriate?

I have done a poll as I personally find this strange but I know I may be in the minority here.

YABU - It's totally fine
YANBU - I agree it's inappropriate

Nope never kissed any of my children on the lips. I’d be horrified if my mum tried to kiss me on the lips.

one I don’t know who you been kissing such as herpes etc
two I see it as a romantic thing not a let’s kiss everyone thing..

No, cannot imagine kissing my elderly parents on the lips. Ughhh just no.

I don't remember ever kissing my parents on the lips and now as an adult I don't kiss them or hug them at all.

I kiss my children on the lips (or cheek, or head, or feet - wherever they want me to).

My 40yo best friend still kisses both parents on the lips.

I kiss my grandparents on the lips.

Long and short of it - no issues as long as both parties are freely consenting.

YANBU.

I find kissing anyone other than a romantic partner on the lips very strange, and I have to admit the thought of it makes me feel very uncomfortable.

I come from a very huggy family, we all love a good hug, but we're not kissers at all, really.

Never kissed on the lips (apart from when babies and they gum your face, no choice in the matter ) I'd find it odd. But if that's what people are used to and happy with meh.

Kissing on the lips was always a thing in my family and I do it with my DD. I think it just naturally stops when the child grows up. I don’t see anything wrong with it.

My daughter is 17 and still kisses me on the lips.

I'm sure one day she'll not want to anymore. I hadn't really thought about it tbh.

This

I think “plenty of chubby cheeks to aim for?!” is possibly the oddest sentence I’ve ever read on MN…

No. Totally weird.

No, I have never kissed my children or parents on the lips … I can remember a boy I went on a date with when I was about 15 saying give me a kiss and I said I haven’t kissed a boy before and he said just kiss me like you would kiss your mum . So I kissed him on the cheek 😊

It's weird as f

I used to when they were little but they are teens now so we don’t anymore.

I have never kissed my parents or my children on the lips. I absolutely hate the idea, it creeps me out. But I know a lot of totally normally people do! It’s just one of those things that varies by family.

My adult kids still kiss me on the lips, my adult daughters still kiss DH ( their father ) on the lips.
Their spouses kiss our faces, except my son in law's who also kiss my lips.
There's nothing wrong with it.
I've found the British are weird about this kind of thing though, they sexualise everything.

My dad was a lips kisser even when I grew up into an adult. It was never ever icky it was just normal. His mum was a lips kisser too but her lips were chapped and dry and it always grossed me out
I kissed my babies and toddlers lips but they grew out of it and it just got to the point where I chase them, pin them down and cover their faces with smoochie kisses while they squeal for me to "gerroff!".

They're 17, 14 and 12 and still not fast enough to escape me.

Totally fine when younger.

It starts to feel odd when they get to about 10.

IMO

I definitely wouldn't want my son in law kissing me on the lips if I had one.

That's v strange.

When my DD was very young yes but not as she got older. Its too intimate as they get older, but everyones different.
Grandkids, never on the lips always forehead, cheek, eyes, nose etc 😁

Cheek kissers here. My 4 Yr old DS sometimes aims for lips and I go with it but I feel more appropriate on cheeks/tops of heads etc. They get plenty of kisses, just not usually on lips.