I have a dilemma I don't really know how to deal with. Over the Christmas holidays DS3 has picked up, from G-rated movies no less, that princes and princesses do long kisses, and he's started trying to do them too. I think he only does it to me and not his dad, and he doesn't know what he's doing - he just tries to press his mouth close to mine and leave it there for a few seconds - but I am finding it deeply uncomfortable and don't know how to discourage it. Obviously I DO fend him off, but it's quite tricky to do it without him feeling rejected.
I'm most concerned he'll try to do it to the little girls in his class when he goes back to nursery, and that they and the nursery staff might misunderstand.
How should I handle this? On the one hand it's sweet, he does it out of love, and I don't want him to think there's anything wrong with it in the right context (i.e. It's something grownups do). On the other, I don't think it's appropriate behaviour in a 3-year-old.
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3-yr-old DS doing "long kisses"
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PiratePanda · 05/01/2014 07:14
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