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No, My Kid Doesn't Have To Hug You

 
Scary Mommy
Sep 15, 2022
 
 
NO THANKS
No, My Kid Doesn't Have To Hug You
 
Today, we've got an important piece about kids and their right to set their boundaries. An anonymous writer admits: "The truth is, I like affection quite a bit. But it pains me to be touched by anyone I don't trust. In the '80s and '90s, in the context where I was raised, 'boundaries' were never spoken of. If I'd resisted my grandmother at one of those family gatherings, I would have been seen as unnatural, defiant. Not a nice girl." It made her wildly uncomfortable — and so she's doing things differently for her own daughter. 

Food for thought, 

Kelly Faircloth, Executive Editor
 
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