Why do strangers feel the need to touch my child? It seems so impolite.
Aug 7, 2014
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How about you ? You dont like touch cute babies or kiss them ?
- alireza6211
Not a stranger's baby. And I always ask first.
- Mary Carmen
There are certain things you shouldn't touch without permission, and pretty much anyone's body is included in that, as far as I'm concerned. A person's hair, a baby...just nope. No touchy.
- Laura
Yeah. I don't need Germy McGerm Germ touchin my baby.
- royce
i'm always surprised by the people who think they can touch my niece when we're out.
- ~Courtney F
When I worked at the Health Sciences Library in NY, the pathology students used to swab and culture the escalator rails. I will never put my hand on one again.
- Mary Carmen
I'm with Laura - I'll never get people who just gotta touch other people's kids, bellies, hair without permission. Partially because we're all disease vectors (nobody needs me taking or sharing whatever we may have,) but also it is just rude :/
- Jennifer Dittrich
I was never that comfortable with strangers deliberately standing too close to my child, never mind invading her personal space even more by touching her. And go out of your way to touch any part of me without warning, and you might be reflexively slapped, even if I know you.
- April Russo (FForever!)
I didn't like it when strangers wanted to touch my dog. Start invading my personal space (which would include a baby if I had one), and I get a little antsy. And by antsy I mean stabbity...
- Bette Cooper
There is a Mexican superstition that states that if you compliment a baby without touching them, you'll give them the 'ojo' (evil eye). Strangers touched my babies all the freaking time.
- Jenny H.
In Italy (at least the Tuscany region) all babies and toddlers are fair game :)
- Eivind
I don't get how asking permission doesn't even occur to some folx.
- Starmama
Before leaving the NICU, the docs & nurses gave me all kinds of lessons about baby care, and had me so paranoid, to this day I don't hold or kiss babies under a year, if I don't have to. Even my loved ones, the most I'll do is hold their baby's foot & wiggle it. We gotta protect em all, even from us.
- Starmama
I was just reading an article about how important it is to teach kids about bodily autonomy and consent, both for their own bodies and others. I think it's appalling that people think they can touch children at will, without asking permission. And no, I never touch children without asking a parent, and I'm trying to remember to always ask children, too, in whatever way is appropriate for their age.
- Laura Krier
I say we bomb Italy.
- Eivind