As my blog world friends know, we have a son. I cannot tell you the number of times we have had negative comments about KISSING our little boy. --THIS IS A VENTING POST-- It's the random people whom we've encountered while out and about who have felt the need to share their opinions about kissing boys. 
Seriously? Just because we have a boy we should be any less affectionate than if we had had a sweet little girl?! We love our son. We are crazy about him. And YES, we DO KISS HIM and he kisses us. Not only do we believe it's Ok, we believe it's essential. We are choosing to love him on purpose. We want him to KNOW that he is dearly loved and well taken care of by his family.It is not my goal to "toughen him up" before the age of two. Believe me, he's all boy! I'm not worried that kisses from Mama and Daddy are going to make him a softy. But that seems to be the concern.
Once, as we were leaving the doctors office my husband was consoling our little boy. He kissed him and told him that everything was Ok and whispered 'I Love You' to him. The lady who worked the front desk made a very negative comment about that. As if Dad's should not kiss their baby boys. As we left and got outside, we talked about how this was not the first time we had heard something like this... and why?! Is it the thinking of past generations?
I don't think it's biblical. I mean, as a family, we are called to represent God's love. God's love is unconditional. God's love is deep and intimate and true. He doesn't 1/2 love us. He is not distant or independent or stand-off-ish. God is near. God cares about everything we are going thru. God is the best Dad we could ever want. God's love is powerful... His love drives out fear!
We really try not to make negative comments to people who do things differently. And we are not perfect parents... But we DO KISS!
What say you blog world???
