Had a fight with my parents once because they wanted me to go to a funeral of somebody I never talked with once in my life
These are your kith and kin. We gather whenever someone passes to poke them with a stick to make sure they’re really dead, chuck 'em in a fire then sing it’s raining men hallelujah while we scatter the ashes (this is my actual funeral plans if you’re going to steal it you have to tell me first)
I am forty years old and I still resent this being done to me as a child. Nobody should force their child to hug someone.
Meh. I can see both sides.
I’ve always struggled with interactions. Didn’t like it as a kid.
That said, I often wish I’d learned more about how to behave in polite company, because what seems obvious to others is not obvious to me.
With my own kids, I certainly don’t “force them” to hug creepy old people, but encouraging them to greet acquaintances is just part of the normal things you teach kids because saying hello to people is not in fact intuitive.
Honestly, if having to hug grandma when you were a kid even though she had a weird mustache is the worst thing that happened to you, then things were pretty good right?
I tell my kid that they don’t HAVE to hug anyone but I would appreciate if they hugged gestures at family members and important people to us
“I changed your diapers”
removed so did everyone else at my grandma’s funeral. I’ve never seen you a day in my sentient life.
