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Don’t Force Your Kids to Hug Their Relatives Over the Holidays
Teaching children that they have to endure unwanted touching is a mistake
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4 min readNov 27, 2019
When my daughter Layla was three years old, a woman in line behind us at the grocery store leaned over and caressed her head and hair, cooing about how cute she was. Layla quickly batted her hand…
