Kissing on the lips

[laloup1]

Hello
My partner’s daughter tries to kiss me on the lips when she’s feeling particularly close to me. Mostly I manage to divert to a cheek as I understand her mum only allows her to kiss herself (her Mum!) on the lips. I try to respect that.
The little girl, being 3, has told her Mum she kisses me on the lips (I guess she doesn’t differentiate between trying and succeeding!) so now she is banned from kissing me at all. Poor child.
I don’t really know if this is something her Mum is particularly precious about or is it culturally less acceptable for children to kiss on lips these days?

[AnneLovesGilbert]

No one kisses on the lips in my family and it's not something I'd ever seen among parents and children. But my DSC do it with their dad, and I assume their Mum, though no one else, and a few years ago started doing it to me, usually as a night night thing.

It's a really significant thing for them, just a parents thing, so I go along with it and I don't feel uncomfortable about it anymore. We're all big huggers and DH and I kiss them on the top of the head a lot. The lip kissing doesn't happen every day, but they seem so happy offering a quick peck on the lips that it seems very rejecting for me to avoid it and I go along with it.

They never do it to each other. I wonder what that's all about?