We lick each others faces in my family. Is that wrong?

Must be some Canis familiaris in the woodpile.

Macdoc wrote:My father had 8 brothers and sisters.....my mother 7.....you can figure how many nieces nephews and cousins resulted.....and most pious god bothers and kid botherers......not to mention odiferous grand parents ( no running water ) and McCoy level uncles n aunts in some cases,

Kissed on the lips ????

Fuck that

Yep, when I greet my grandchildren I remember the revulsion of sundry old people slobbering on my face, so the greeting is nowhere near a mouth.

Fist bump works just fine.....

I suppose the French air kissing cheeks seems okay but not for me...... a nod works just fine thankyou very much .

Macdoc wrote:Fist bump works just fine.....

I suppose the French air kissing cheeks seems okay but not for me...... a nod works just fine thankyou very much .

I love hugging my children and grandchildren, so they get kisses where I can reach. They're so tall! The grandchildren get all the hugs they'll allow me, they're still short so they get kisses on their heads.

None of that kissing stuff between generations in my family, ever.
I saw my parents kiss once, just once in my lifetime, and I was embarrassed.

Much more open in my generation, plenty of hugs, and my kids are accustomed to jokingly separating my wife and I because we are "too old for that and will break a hip".

Oh, my parents barely touched each other - in my presence, anyway. Unless my dad wanted to annoy my mum by pinging her bra strap. Definitely no hugging or kissing, not even at Christmas. Mostly it was grandparent kissing and auntie and uncle kissing I engaged in. I recall recounting an incident on here before where I was saying goodbye to Auntie Roma Kathleen, and at the moment she decided to swoop in for a kiss on the lips I was bringing my mouth swiftly closed on the word ‘bye’, and I ended up biting her on the chin. Good times.

We weren't a particularly demonstrative family, except for Grandpa, who kept slipping you a bit of tongue.

laklak weighs in ...the kiss of death

That's exactly what we called Grandpa.

The good doctor would have the conniptions over here... nude communal family bathing is the norm, often continuing well past infancy and toddlerhood.
Then there is onsen (Hot Spring) culture, which is usually segregated male and female, but communal nudity in the bathing context does not have any sense of impropriety here. Old and young all in together.

My little lass (2 Y.O.) doesn't like getting dressed after bath time but runs around in the nuddy. I chase after her shouting 'Come here you and put your pants on.' (Which got me thinking that it's only because I chased after her mum saying the opposite that the little girl is here at all!!)
When I catch her I blow a big raspberry on her bottom.

I think nudity is less sexual than partially clothed and really depends on personal space....if the kid is into it ....fine.

My son was ( and is ) cuddly but my daughter never was.
Son finally after a slow start has both a couple of girls to cuddle and an adorable King Charles Spaniel who is very affectionate.
Daughter has been in a long term relationship since fairly early uni .....still going a decade later and from some of the ahem noises upstairs when in her teens rather orgasmic.....I think she had a very attentive boy at the time.

We hug and have a very close relationship but all a quick hug physically.
Son gives size large bear hugs ....

kids are all different ....