I kiss my family on the lips -- mom, dad, baby, whatever. I was raised that way. Dad's Polish-American from upstate NY. Mom is Greek-American and Heinz 57 Southern from DC. I think it's just a family affection thing. Nothing gross about it.

Anonymous wrote:I'm African American and I kiss my 4 year old DD on the cheek. However, she insists on kissing me on the lips. When I try to turn my head she grabs my face and kisses me on the lips (it's really sweet). I've never seen her kiss anyone else on the lips though (my husband, grandmom, grandfather, uncles, aunts) so I'm not really sure where she got it from. She has told me "we dont kiss our friends on the lips, but we can kiss our mommies on the lips." Where does this come from....I dont know.

This happened to me too. When I grew up I never kissed my parents on the lips, but my DS is insistant on doing so. It's pretty cute. He was in a home daycare with a lady from Vietnam, I wonder if he picked it up there.

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Psychotic American neuroses on full display here.

yeah, ya gotta wonder what kind of sex life these hyper germaphobes have too. Life is messy people - live a little!

HAHA! I was thinking the same exact thing. Especially the poster that calls kissing your baby on the lips gross. I feel sorry for their spouses, not to mention their children.

I kiss my adorable little baby all over her face, including on the lips. She is irresistably sweet

My family kisses on the lips. Born and raised in the Northeast. DH also kisses her on the lips, and he's SE Asian.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, of course I kiss my baby on the lips. Goodness gracious. Love and affection won't harm your baby.

Your gross lips full of herpes and all sorts of bacteria will.

Psychotic American neuroses on full display here.

yeah, ya gotta wonder what kind of sex life these hyper germaphobes have too. Life is messy people - live a little!

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, of course I kiss my baby on the lips. Goodness gracious. Love and affection won't harm your baby.

Your gross lips full of herpes and all sorts of bacteria will.

Psychotic American neuroses on full display here.

In our house we don't kiss the kids on the lips, although they try and trick us for a laugh sometimes. Cheeks, head, chin, top of the head. I tell them to save it for their boyfriend! And of course they cover their eyes during the kissing scenes in the Disney movies.
The other day after lights out I told my 4 year old DD that it was our 2 year-old DD's turn to "tell us a story."
2 year old said, "Once upon a time...there were two little girls...named (names withheld)...they went into the woods...kissed a prince on the lips...got married and lived happily ever after. The end."

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Anonymous wrote:Of course I kiss all my children on the lips. Especially when I'm nursing them!
http://breastfedblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/why-mothers-kiss-their-babies-judy-rall.html

I think you need to go back to school

“When a mother kisses her baby, she ‘samples’ those pathogens that are on the baby’s face. Those are ones that the baby is about to ingest."

They're saying FACE not LIPS!

Gross!

And the mouth isn't full of disease and bacteria as previously posted? You're so cute.

Let's try again... When you kiss the lips you're disposing of your germs into your baby's mouth! You're NOT doing it when you kiss them on the cheeks or anywhere else. That's another reason why you should NOT kiss the baby's hands.

OTOH, when you kiss on the cheeks you're making sure you grab those germs and make your body produce antibodies so later on baby can get those through your BM! Got it?

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Anonymous wrote:Of course I kiss all my children on the lips. Especially when I'm nursing them!
http://breastfedblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/why-mothers-kiss-their-babies-judy-rall.html

I think you need to go back to school

“When a mother kisses her baby, she ‘samples’ those pathogens that are on the baby’s face. Those are ones that the baby is about to ingest."

They're saying FACE not LIPS!

Gross!

And the mouth isn't full of disease and bacteria as previously posted? You're so cute.

Anonymous wrote:Of course I kiss all my children on the lips. Especially when I'm nursing them!
http://breastfedblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/why-mothers-kiss-their-babies-judy-rall.html

I think you need to go back to school

“When a mother kisses her baby, she ‘samples’ those pathogens that are on the baby’s face. Those are ones that the baby is about to ingest."

They're saying FACE not LIPS!

Gross!

Of course I kiss all my children on the lips. Especially when I'm nursing them!
http://breastfedblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/why-mothers-kiss-their-babies-judy-rall.html

I'm African American and I kiss my 4 year old DD on the cheek. However, she insists on kissing me on the lips. When I try to turn my head she grabs my face and kisses me on the lips (it's really sweet). I've never seen her kiss anyone else on the lips though (my husband, grandmom, grandfather, uncles, aunts) so I'm not really sure where she got it from. She has told me "we dont kiss our friends on the lips, but we can kiss our mommies on the lips." Where does this come from....I dont know.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, of course I kiss my baby on the lips. Goodness gracious. Love and affection won't harm your baby.

Your gross lips full of herpes and all sorts of bacteria will.

You are a freakin' riot! I can't stop laughing at you!

Until your cupid lips gets their first "cold sore" Bwahahahhahaa

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, of course I kiss my baby on the lips. Goodness gracious. Love and affection won't harm your baby.

Your gross lips full of herpes and all sorts of bacteria will.

You are a freakin' riot! I can't stop laughing at you!

Anonymous wrote:I am American and I kiss my baby on the lips but I would never kiss someone else's baby on the lips and I would be irritated if another family member (besides hubby) kissed MY baby on lips.

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