Butterfly and giraffe kisses
MysteryMommy is talking about her son wanting to kiss like Aladdin and Jasmine, and several people made a really great point--there is absolutely NO good reason for an animated film geared toward young children to show intense, deep kissing.
Thankfully, we don't own Aladdin or any other kids' movies that model that type of behavior, so the most we've run into the issue is that our kids see DH and I kissing on the mouth and want to do the same. So far we've dealt with it by making sure the kids also see us kiss each other on the cheek occasionally, as well as "audience-appropriate" kissing on the mouth. We do want our kids to see us being affectionate with each other, but try to keep it fairly low-key if they're watching. :)
We've also explained to them that kissing on the mouth is something special Mommy and Daddy (and other grownups) only do with each other and that even we don't kiss other people that way. They don't seem to have a problem understanding that.
The kids really like making up a variety of kisses right now. Of course, it's partly a bedtime delaying tactic, but it's awfully cute. There are butterfly kisses (eyelashes fluttering against a cheek), bunny rabbit kisses (rubbing noses), chipmunk kisses (the same but with teeth clicking), and infinite others down to giraffe kisses (big sloppy kiss on the cheek).They're very imaginative in the variations they come up with. They always want to do one more kiss ("But Mommy, I forgot to give you an elephant kiss!") until we tell them that's enough and it's time to go to sleep.
It always makes me leave the room smiling, though.
Thankfully, we don't own Aladdin or any other kids' movies that model that type of behavior, so the most we've run into the issue is that our kids see DH and I kissing on the mouth and want to do the same. So far we've dealt with it by making sure the kids also see us kiss each other on the cheek occasionally, as well as "audience-appropriate" kissing on the mouth. We do want our kids to see us being affectionate with each other, but try to keep it fairly low-key if they're watching. :)
We've also explained to them that kissing on the mouth is something special Mommy and Daddy (and other grownups) only do with each other and that even we don't kiss other people that way. They don't seem to have a problem understanding that.
The kids really like making up a variety of kisses right now. Of course, it's partly a bedtime delaying tactic, but it's awfully cute. There are butterfly kisses (eyelashes fluttering against a cheek), bunny rabbit kisses (rubbing noses), chipmunk kisses (the same but with teeth clicking), and infinite others down to giraffe kisses (big sloppy kiss on the cheek).They're very imaginative in the variations they come up with. They always want to do one more kiss ("But Mommy, I forgot to give you an elephant kiss!") until we tell them that's enough and it's time to go to sleep.
It always makes me leave the room smiling, though.
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Posted by purple_kangaroo at 2:18 PM[Permanent link]
3 Comments:
That is absolutely adorable. And now I've just melted into a big ol' puddle of goop.
Kids are good at being melting. :)
that IS adorable! My mom and I always used to give each other butterfly kisses! But I think i may have to put the Giraffe Kiss into good use! tee hee
take care
rach
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