Experts Say it’s ‘Too Sexual’ to Kiss Your Kids on the Lips

When it comes to parenting, it seems like there's always someone there to tell you that you're doing it wrong.

With the kids heading back to school over the next week or so, it's pretty common to bring them out to the bus stop and give them a big hug goodbye and a nice smooch; sometimes that smooch is on the cheek or forehead and sometimes it's on the lips, but one expert says you should never kiss your kids on the lips.

According to Dr. Charlotte Reznick, a kiss on the lips "can be stimulating" and confusing for your kids. She points out that our lips are an erogenous zone and if kids see their parents kiss on the mouth, it could send the wrong message.

Interesting. Is it possible for a child to look at mommy and daddy kissing and somehow interpret that to be sexual? I'm personally not a mouth kisser but I think it's pretty harmless. It's not like it's an open mouth kiss with tongue or anything. It all comes down to a matter of preference and of course, the age of the child; but I'm just not buying that kissing our kids on the lips is sexual.

Another expert, clinical psychologist Sally-Anne McCormack, seems to agree with me, saying, "There's absolutely no way that kissing a young child on the lips is confusing for them in any way, That's like saying breastfeeding is confusing. Some people might have issues with it, but it isn't any more sexual than giving a baby a back rub."