Should Kids Be Forced To Hug People When They Don’t Want To?
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🗓️ 28 October 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Get it the virtue man. I hated this as a kid, but I never had any saying the matter. |
| 0:05.6 | My parents would invite their friends over to the house for drinks or dinner or what have you |
| 0:10.6 | and there I am like, I don't know, five, six years old, you know, playing by myself, you know, |
| 0:16.0 | because my parents would forget that they had a kid and all. And then you know, when it's time |
| 0:21.9 | to go to bed, my parents saying, okay, uh, birds going to bed, bird gives, blanket hug, give blank |
| 0:30.1 | a hug and you just going and it's weird, it's weird as a kid, right? I don't know you. And here I |
| 0:36.4 | am getting like hugged and it was just sort of expected, right? But times they are a change in. |
| 0:41.6 | But times they are a change in, right? Uh, how are you going to handle that with Jimmy? Oh, I mean, |
| 0:46.2 | I don't, we are by far and I think Cassie and I are on the exact same page. We don't force any hugs, |
| 0:53.2 | any showcases of affection if Jimmy wants to. Great. If he doesn't, he doesn't. And not even |
| 0:57.9 | goes for Bart and I like, I don't say give me a kiss. I go, Jimmy, come on, I have a kiss. And if |
| 1:03.7 | he wants to give you one, he does, if he doesn't, he doesn't. So, and I mean, this is going to go with, |
| 1:09.2 | and we always say, hey, do you want to give so and so? We don't say give this person a hug. |
| 1:14.4 | Be like, do you want to give like he gets to see his girlfriends all the time Ruby and Ren? Do |
| 1:19.3 | you want to give Ruby a hug? And then if he wants to, he does. And even at 18 months, we're letting him, |
| 1:24.3 | God, he's 19 months now, letting him make those decisions. Same here. And it is the hardest thing when |
| 1:30.5 | you say, can Mama have a hug? And they go, no, and they walk away and you're just like, oh, God, |
| 1:35.8 | I want to grab you and squeeze you so bad, but I can't. And it's all about same thing with Hazel. |
| 1:39.8 | If we're holding her, she says put me down. We put her down immediately. She doesn't even need to |
| 1:43.6 | say please, like, trying to teach her that she does not have to do anything with her body, |
| 1:48.1 | that she doesn't want to. Now, I have figured out a good work around cast. So whenever I ask Jimmy, |
| 1:54.2 | if Mama can have a have a kiss and he's like, no, where he pushes me away. If Bart's holding him, |
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