I would say 5 or younger is an appropriate age to kiss your kids on the mouth. I mean, it's not like you're grabbing their face and kissing them hard for 5 minutes or using tongue, you're just quickly pecking them on the mouth- not that strange a thing to do with little kids, if you ask me.
When I was much younger I used to but not any more C:
I didn't see it as wrong because- they're my parents- like- y'know what I mean?
It just didn't feel weird. It does now I guess, having kissed someone that's not my parents so I guess things just change when you grow up. When I was little I wasn't having crushes or anything like that but when you get to a certain age it just-
Yeah c: Not sure how to explain it really. I understand how people find it weird and I do now too but not when I was younger.
Why? There is no problem with kissing of any genders of your family, because it's family. Not everyone sexualises kissing. Grow up and stop being weird and homophobic.
Your all weird, some parents and children kiss on the mouth, it's normal, your all the strange ones sexualising it. Do you freak out when friends kiss on the mouth. Keep your strange predjudices to yourself, if you don't like it don't do it but don't condem or ridicule others for it.
I think like under the age of ten or so is fine. Little pecks are totally harmless. But then again, I'm also from a culture that slaps butts as a sign of congratulations.
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My mom did it with me and now my brother does it with his daughter, it's no big deal.
Guys, you're literally made out of your parents. Like, everything that's you was once them. What's the big deal? A handshake contains more bacteria than a simple kiss on the mouth.
my only problem with this is hygiene. do you have any clue what a variety of bacteria does a regular adult carry in their mouth? those parents who kiss their kids on the mouth obviously don't. :P
oh god no don't argue with me, i'm an expert. sort of. gonna-be. anyways, point is, oral microflora in adults and the one in children are two different things. additional thing of importance being kids have yet to fully develop their immune systems so it's better to, ehm, not to shove adult bacteria in them before they're ready. it goes both ways, ofc. kids can have colonies of strep in their noses and it doesn't causes them any harm (mostly) while it can put a sucepptible adult in bed with a pneumonia.
finally, unrelated to microbiology, doesn't it get awkward if you have this habit of kissing your kids on the mouth, like, at what age is it the time to stop? don't booth parties feel weird when they don't want to do it anymore but sort of feel obligated to because it's "a habit"? like, why would you get into that when you can solve everything by kissing your kids on the rest of their face/head? they do have loads of surface there for you to land your loving parental smoochies.
Sorry, don't mean to argue with a sort of gonna be expert. Never in my three science degrees or year long internship in the Mayo Clinic pathology lab have I come across any oral or facial microflora. I definitely agree that children do not have fully developed immune systems. I also think kissing kids on the mouth is a terrible practice for many reasons. However, in my experience, adults tend to get sick with prolonged exposure to children far more often than the inverse. Kids tend to do dirtier things (not like that, come on) than adults, and so tend to get exposed to a wider variety of bacteria and fungi.
okay just one thing, how come have you not come across any facial or oral microflora?? my textbooks say even demodex folliculorum is a part of normal facial skin flora. pretty wild, isn't it? and then there's various adults i've seen with my own two eyes who have been colonised by pseudomonas aeruginosa (those were skin lesions, nails etc, not mouth) and shit so, well, i am kinda terrified of all this bacteria people pick up in the long years of their lives and i would, were i a parent, like to keep the transfer of these crawly things onto my kids to minimum.
I didn't see it as wrong because- they're my parents- like- y'know what I mean?
It just didn't feel weird. It does now I guess, having kissed someone that's not my parents so I guess things just change when you grow up. When I was little I wasn't having crushes or anything like that but when you get to a certain age it just-
Yeah c: Not sure how to explain it really. I understand how people find it weird and I do now too but not when I was younger.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEbzD1bBlTQ
finally, unrelated to microbiology, doesn't it get awkward if you have this habit of kissing your kids on the mouth, like, at what age is it the time to stop? don't booth parties feel weird when they don't want to do it anymore but sort of feel obligated to because it's "a habit"? like, why would you get into that when you can solve everything by kissing your kids on the rest of their face/head? they do have loads of surface there for you to land your loving parental smoochies.