Recently my son and I are walking back from his daycare and this little girl about his age on a leash (see previous post on leashes and how they should be used) walks right up to him and grabs his toy. The mother is walking on the other side of her daughter but not close enough (it's a long leash) and does nothing to try to get her to give the toy back. Instead she smiles and says "Besito, Besito," which with even my very poor Spanish I believe means "Kiss Kiss." So this little girl (who we have never seen or met before) tries to grab my son and give him a big wet smooch.
Now I am not as much of a worrier about germs as I used to be when he was first born, but this was a bit ridiculous. Not to seem extreme but the mother obviously is not only not reprimanding her daughter for grabbing other kids toys but is actually encouraging her to molest them. I am not her parent and should not need to be taking his toys back from her or remove her from my son and his things.
I then say something like "Ok now that was very nice but we need to go" and take the toy from her and try to have my son walk on the other side of me to avoid this little grabby kisser.
Then to my shock the mother is letting her daughter grab onto the stroller which I am trying to push while my son walks next to me and again says to her "Besito Sonya, Besito!" So the little girl again tries to get to my son to kiss him. Honestly this was really too much. Any normal person would see that my little boy is not at all interested in being kissed, nor am I as his mother, and this girl should not be encouraged to walk up to strange boys and kiss them on the street. I can only imagine what life that will lead her into in the future. My son is not at all comfortable around strangers and I think this to be a good thing. I would never encourage him to walk up to strangers (children or adults) and grab them or their things.
I then had to say "Ok now that's enough We have to go" I unlatch the girl from my stroller and pick my son up (who is not at all happy with any of this) and put him in the stroller and make as fast an exit as we can. As his mother I agree my little boy is very cute and hard to resist, but please try to control your daughters around him!
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