Family Photo Prompts Debate About Parents Kissing Children On The Lips
Family Photo Prompts Debate About Parents Kissing Children On The Lips
While there are a lot of parents who kiss their young children on the lips as a sign of affection, others believe it's very inappropriate.
Some doctors, including Dr. Charlotte Reznick, a child psychologist from UCLA, even warn parents that doing so could confuse their children and affect them psychologically. "As a child gets to 4 or 5 or 6 and their sexual awareness comes about (and some kids have an awareness earlier - as when we notice they start masturbating at 2 or 3 sometimes - they just discover their private parts and it feels good), the kiss on the lips can be stimulating to them," she said.
When famous former soccer player David Beckham shared a photo of him kissing his five-year-old daughter, Harper, on the lips last month, he received a fair amount of criticism from people who called it disgusting and sexual. “It's how I was brought up - and Victoria - and it's how we are with our children,†he explained. “We want to show our kids love and we protect them, look after them and support them.â€
His wife, Victoria, was also slammed for doing the same thing with Harper months earlier. Others saw it as a perfectly normal display of affection, stating that people were reading way too much into it.
Unlike Dr. Reznick, Dr. Fiona Martin, a psychologist from the Sydney Child Psychology Centre, says that innocent pecks on the lips are just that -- innocent.
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