I'm not a fan of kissing your kids on the lips intentionally but my daughter has been known to kiss me on the lips when she is close to my face, I let those pass since its not all the time.

ummmm I am 21 and STILL kiss BOTH my parents on the lips!

Yes, I don't see why it would be a problem. And nothing beats open mouth slobbery wet baby kisses.

I kiss my 2 year old all over and tell her that I love her at least 5 times a day! She'll only kiss me on the lips. I told her to kiss someone on the cheek and was super confused and a little upset about why not on the lips.

ALWAYS!!

if our lil guy gets my mouth... he gets it... a kiss is a kiss! and nothing is better than when it's initiated by your lil one... he grabs on (w/a deathlike grip) usually around the little hairs on your neck and pulls your face to his mouth and plants one on you... he sometimes teethes on you a bit too.... just so you know he REALLY loves you. hahaha and now that there are a coupla teeth there, it's been a lil treacherous... but there's absolutely NOTHING better.
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Of course! What's the big deal?

kisses on the lips are great...especially baby kisses, all wet and ooey gooey..

I am 34 and still kiss my parents on the lips.

EW i would never kiss my parents on the lips now. that's sick. i kiss one person on the lips and that's my boyfriend. but i would kiss little babies on the lips too, but i think it would stop at a certain age.

nope. I find it weird.

i think its weird that somebody (especially a mommy!) would NOT want to kiss their little ones on the lips! i can't get enough kisses, nomatter where they are!!

Oh roxtarchic I know EXACTLY what you're talking about. My son grabs my neck, pulls me in and gives me the best smooches ever. I'm tempted to say that's my favorite thing in the whole world.

For the people who find it weird, I'm curious what you find so strange about it? I'm really genuinely curious!

Nope I don't kiss anyone on the lips besides my husband. I find it too intimate for anyone else. I love kissing kids on the cheeks, nose and forehead.

I'm the same as kiwitwist. I don't think it's gross to kiss kids on the lips, but I would never kiss anyone but my husband on the lips. That is a boundary I have that I guess was established by the way I was raised -- my family wasn't all that affectionate, and I was always uncomfortable when other people kissed their parents.

I don't think it's realistic to say you won't kiss your kids on the lips when you don't have kids yet.

Of course I do. I can't imagine holding back that affection.

like caterpillargirl and lovely_1 I'm 20 and still kiss my parents on the lips but not my aunts uncles and cousins

Huh, I thought this was a weird poll at first. I just assumed that everyone kissed their kids on the lips. I really had no idea, you learn something every day

I don't have kids but I definitely will kiss them on the lips. My mom would kiss me of the lips, I really liked for some reason.

Yes!!! I love kissing my son (3 months old) on the lips!!! is so sweet...

When I ask my daughter for a kiss, she plants a hand on each of my cheeks and then dives in. About half the time her drooling open mouth lands on my nose, but the other half I get a big wet kiss.

Kiss on the lips is intimate in a partner kind of way.
So in my book that leaves kids out of it.

i remember my little sister when she was little her slobbery kisses..they are so fun!

I still kiss my gram (she practically raised me) on the lips i have never thought twice about it

Wow!

macgirl I am the same! I thought everyone did! Weird news to me!

And btw skigurl I think it's unfair to call it "ew". I personally find it "ew" that you never had that relationship with your parents...I was bought up in a very affectionat family where we always said "i love you" and kissed and hugged (kinda like Meet the Fockers haha)...I still say I love you to my parents EVERYTIME I say good-bye!

I see some of you still "do it" as a grownups. I have a question then - don't you feel uncomfortable while kissing your dads on the lips and then your partners? This is where I get "ew" factor too.

I am almost 28 and still give both my parents big smooches saying hello or goodbye. Add my sisters to that too. And some friends. I also kiss my daughter on the lips anytime she will let me. She probably gets 15-20 kisses a day and is told she is loved more than that. Don't everyone go all prude and give up being physically affectionate with each other. Humans need each other to be happy. Why not touch, kiss, hold hands etc. with everyone you hold dear?

Papa, why would that gross you out? They are totally different kinds of kisses. Dads are dads. completely full of platonic parental love. My husband is a different story. Half the time he tries to slip me the tongue.

Lovely, me too! My sisters and I do to each other too. Every time on the phone or anywhere.

My husband and my daughter get smacks on the lips every day. I outgrew it with my parents and maybe my daughter will with me. But I can't picture a day when I won't want to give her a kiss on the lips. It's the best.

I know these are different kisses Probably it does seem weird for those who weren't kissed on the lips by their parents so "we" don't get "you" and vice versa

I kind of see kissing your parents on the lips as something that you grow out of. I probably stopped that around high school/college. Cheek kisses just feel more appropriate after that. My family was very affectionate while I was growing up, if that matters. I don't think it is odd to kiss your children on the lips, but honestly, I think I'd feel weird if my adolescent/adult child continued to kiss me on the lips.

yes those are the best kisses, i couldn't imagine it not being normal, i love when my kids grab my face and plant a kiss on my lips, i was not brought up to be affectionate i knew my mom loved me but she didn't do the kisses, and with my kids i kiss them every chance i get to the point where they say mom stop, now my fiances family is very affectionate something that i had to get used to, they kiss everyone on the cheek i remember going to another city where the majority of his family lives and everyone kissing me i was like hun who are these people he was like i don't know just kiss them back, lol

To each their own. Unfortunately, that is a very American trait. Most european people are very affectionate into adult hood. Sometimes with complete strangers.

pap i too felt like that, (only) like when my fiance kissed his parents on the lips only a peck but its a cycle their parents were like that with their parents and so on, for me growing up it was like hi mom, not on the fiances side which is huge, on Sundays when everyone gets together that's the way everyone greets each other a peck on the cheek, everyone from the youngest baby to the eldest and their is about 25 to 35 people in my fiances parents house

Great Sommelier it's so true though!
In Europe, it's so different! There is love everyone and no one feels "ashamed" for kissing or hugging or showing/displaying your love for another.

it reminds me of communist leaders in Soviet Union - that was some kind of liplock

I am European and I've never noticed kissing on the lips among families in any European country I've been to - actually I thought it was American thing since I assume most of you guys are American.

Kiss on the cheek is very popular in some countries among family&friends but kiss on the lips servers romantic purposes.

I kiss my baby cousins on the lips all the time! I kiss their cheeks, hands, heads, or nose. They also do it to me. My younger cousin and I do Eskimo Kisses (I think that is what it is called) and then rub our ears against each other's ears. If anyone has seen Golden Girls, they'll know what I mean. I kiss my parents on the lips and heck, sometimes my brother does it! It doesn't mean anything more than showing our love for each other. We don't only kiss on the lips, but we do it for the most part. No one in our family sees it as sexual, just as being loving.

I never did so with my parents, but we were still very affectionate. I kiss my son on the lips all the time though. My husband says it's weird, but then his family isn't very affectionate at all.

I'm genuinely surprised that anyone would think kissing a small child on the lips is gross. Do you have to tell your children not to? It seems so natural.

I do know that a lot of people "outgrow" it with their parents, and I don't find either preference weird.

I kiss my kids on the lips about a dillion times a day. I can't imagine depriving me or them of that!

Growing up my family wasn't affectionate at all, there still isn't a lot of affection going around, physically speaking. Don't know what's up with that, seeing how I'm super affectionate with my husband, his family, and of course my own children! I hope my kids kiss me on the lips forever!

Amen lil!

I kiss my kids on the lips.I love giving them kisses.I have never thought of it as being weird.

I agree with Papaver. I'm European as well, and Europeans kiss a lot *on the cheek*, not on the lips. My family was super-affectionate, but lip kisses were reserved for couples. I wouldn't say kissing a child on the lips is "gross", but it's not something I ever do.

I kiss my son on the lips every day for20-30 times.. And I'll do it until he outgrow it..

Lovely..i'm actually extremely close with my family. in fact, i'm closer with my family than most people i know...they're my best friends...we always say i love you, and we often hug and kiss on the cheek, but adults who are not in a relationship kissing on the lips weirds me out a LOT. well, even friends i find are okay, but RELATIVES who are adults, i find that really weird...i would say incestuous but i guess that's taking it too far. but anyway, it's not that i don't have that relationship with my family, i just don't feel the need to cross that line.

"i would say incestuous but i guess that's taking it too far."

That's taking it way to far. That is insulting especially since there are several people who day they kiss their parents. This kind of searching for things to be gross and wrong with wholesome things while at the same time espousing that everyone should be able to be whatever they want to be and do whatever they want to do that is counterculture is what is destroying this country and furthering the divide between it's own citizens.

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