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[quote=Anonymous]I think many Americans were raised to believe that kissing generally, but especially kissing faces, is purely sexual. I don't know why. I guess this is a puritanical influence.

Those of us who grew up in traditions where it is very normal to kiss family and friends on the face don't have these issues so I think it's much more normalized to kiss kids on the face and lips and for them to do the same with you and each other.

With my own child, because she's being raised in the US where some of these hang ups exist, I don't force it on her but I definitely don't avoid it. She went through a brief period in kindergarten where she decided literally all kissing is gross (the influence of peers no doubt) but then she got over it and now she kisses me on the cheek and forehead and lets me do the same. But we don't kiss on the lips anymore -- that stuck with her. She now associates that with romantic love, which was inevitable. It doesn't bother me. I'm glad she's stayed very physically affectionate.[/quote]

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