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PT 2: Should Kids Be Forced To Hug People When They Don’t Want To?

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4.14.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Her husband thinks kids should HAVE to hug their relatives even if they don't want to and she disagrees! Did they come to a compromise? Find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, the bird show. So did the hubby get it or not? I mean, honestly, what are we teaching

0:07.0

our kids with this theory that, you know, when they're toddlers or whatever and you've

0:11.8

got your friends over at the house, you're having dinner or whatever, or relatives, they

0:16.9

may not even know that before they go to sleep, we make them hug everybody in the house.

0:24.2

So backwards now, it is. And it, well, it is backwards now, which is why myself and

0:30.4

Cassie and others are teaching our kids that they have autonomy, that they don't have to

0:36.9

hug people that if they don't want to hug them or they don't have to kiss somebody, if

0:40.1

they don't want to kiss them, they don't have to do that. If, if you're comfortable doing

0:44.0

that great, if you're not, we're going to respect your choices and we're going to respect

0:47.0

your body. Well, here's the problem that Katie was having here because her husband just

0:50.9

didn't understand her point on that. For those that didn't hear it on Friday, Katie,

0:55.8

explain the tension between you and your husband over this whole thing.

0:58.9

Well, he just thought I was being a little bit overprotective because I want it to be the

1:06.9

choice of my daughters if they hug someone or kiss someone and he thought that was ridiculous

1:13.0

that they should, you know, because we were going to visit his family over the weekend

1:16.3

and this has been brought up before. He doesn't want it to be a big issue. Just kissing

1:21.3

hug my family. What's the big deal? So we had a discussion, like a heart to heart and

1:27.4

I took the advice that you guys gave me last week and we sat down and I really explained

1:34.1

to him from our, like from a woman's perspective and a safety perspective and we got on the

1:39.5

same page. Like it took a while, but we got there. We have great communication. We just

1:44.4

had to navigate some things and but he got it. He did get it. He did. I think, you know,

1:53.5

I just used a different way of explaining things and it kind of clicked and he was able

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