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Adding this: while we generally don't touch babies, no one has any inhibitions about touching pets. I have a little dog with long silky ear fringes and no one can go past her without stopping and running their fingers through her long fringes several times and cooing about how pretty she is.
It's maybe a human nature thing to handle the hair of cute babies. We don't because we are culturally conditioned not to. We are an ooh yucky germs culture.
There are several people on this forum who need to stay far away from the border states. They will be spending their children's early years screaming at Mexican women.
Guilty as charged. Although, when I lived in San Diego, they were lucky in that no one tried to touch my son. lol (And the ones that did, asked first, in which case I had to decline because I was told to.)
If someone is from another culture they may not even consider it would be considered wrong. This is how things were when I was a kid and I am white. Things have changed so much.
You knew the white women's intentions when they touched your babies hair?
This is a weird post though. Yesterday I was reading a post on if it was safe to walk with children in a stroller in Buenos Aires and the two warnings I read were to watch out for the dog poo in the sidewalks and that women will fawn all over children.
I think this is from a time when humans were more community oriented. I think in the US we have moved past community and keeping your children from it or not is a decision you have to make.
That was my point. No one does know. Everyone here is making an assumption purely because of her ethnicity, which I was trying to point out, is not right. What would they assume the reason would be if it were a man or someone of a different ethnic background?
So you guys are ok with some man randomly touching your young daughter with no idea who he is? I guess that's alright too based on peoples reactions here.
I was born and raised in Texas very near the Mexican border and when we would go shopping in Matamoros it would never fail that the ladies would always run their hands through my sisters long thick blonde hair or pat her red cheeks ( from the intense heat ) or comment on her ice blue eyes... I had mahogany hair and almost black eyes so not much atten there .. it's normal and totally no big deal .
Being from the south and a mom for 32 years, I talk to babies and little kids all the time at the store like I know them !
Ther is a post about not holding babies. And I am all for parents not allowing random people to hold their babies. It's up to the parents. I've never asked to hold a baby. But I allow my son to ask. Sometimes he is told no, sometimes yes. And I did let people hold my babies, and sometimes I said no.
I think it's crazy to not let people to touch your baby. Germs. Pervs. Whatever. Get a grip. Babies aren't full formed adults. They don't have adult boundaries with people. They love to touch and be touched.
Get a grip, people.
My son got all his bugs from other kids. I could always trace it back. And then the doctors office.
If another human wants to lay hand on your child to bless them...shut up. Smile. Move one.
I think some of you don't understand what it's like to be conspicuous.
Would you let your dog lick your child's face? Would you let your neighbor's dog? Which has worse germs?
Research has found that children who lived with dogs when they were babies and toddlers, tend to have better immunity against common diseases, and are less likely to have asthma and other such conditions.
Do some races have worse germs than others? Which is worse, racism or dogism?
That was my point. No one does know. Everyone here is making an assumption purely because of her ethnicity, which I was trying to point out, is not right. What would they assume the reason would be if it were a man or someone of a different ethnic background?
It was not a man or someone of a different background. But you sound like a peach. I wish your child luck.
An interesting thing happened when I was at target the other day.
Please tell me how/what you would have done in this instant.
I was with my wife and boys at target. My wife was waiting for some coffee at the Starbucks they have in the target and my boys and I were waiting for her. They were in their strollers with me. A lady( Hispanic, that will be of relevance later) while walking out of the store passed me then my boys and ran her hand through their hair. We don't know the lady at all. When I say ran her hands, I'm not saying just touched their head but ran, like carressing, their hair. I saw it and was in a little bit of shock like did that just happened. I called out to my wife, who is Hispanic, and let her know what happened. She saw the lady and just shook it off and later explained to me that in the Hispanic culture, they do that sometimes with young kids to wave off evil spirits.
I don't know how to feel about that. What would you say/ do? Thank you.
I had a head full of shock blond curly hair growing up until it turned darker in my early teens. I distinctly remember on trips down into Mexico when I was young, the Mexican ladies loved to grab me and run their fingers through my hair. They would go on and on to my parents about my hair. I think its a cultural thing.
My parents would just smile and thank them and we would keep on walking. I don't see any reason to get upset about it.
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