Girl Scouts: Don’t force kids to hug relatives for holidays — it sends wrong message about consent

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The Girl Scouts of the USA have a message for parents for the upcoming holiday season: Don’t force your kids to hug relatives if they just don’t want to.

The Girl Scouts of the USA, in a recent blog post titled “Reminder: Your Daughter Doesn’t Owe Anyone a Hug. Not Even at the Holidays,” discussed consent and how it applies to family gatherings during the holidays.

The nearly 400-word feature advises, “Have you ever insisted, ‘Uncle just got here – go give him a big hug!’ or ‘Auntie gave you that nice toy, go give her a kiss,’ when you were worried your child might not offer affection on her own? yes, you might want to reconsider the urge to do that in the future.”

According to the writer, encouraging your child to show affection simply because they haven’t seen a particular relative in a while could later “set the stage for her questioning” whether or not she owes those in her life affection simply on the grounds that they did something for her — like buy her dinner.

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