Parents of the Lounge: when your kids were babies...

[BlueIris]

...did you kiss their toes? I'm asking because this friend of mine, who is a happily child-free lady, sometimes mentions that she kisses the toes of her nieces and nephews and...is this like, a thing? That parents and non-parents alike, apparently, do to babies? And have we as a society ever accrued any real, actual evidence that the babies even like that? Forgive the ramblings of another child-free person in early Spring, I'm just curious.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Kissed, nibbled, and chomped. My 6 yo still wants me to do it *lol*

[LostinVA]

2. I kiss my furbabies' toes...

[Magrittes Pipe]

3. I kiss my birds' toes.

But I think children's toes are gross. x(

[Dora]

4. I think his ears taste better.

And I don't have to hold him upside down to get to his ears, so I nibble on those a lot. His toes don't get so much attention from me.

On the other hand, my son has developed a recent fascination with Mommy's toes... especially when one foot has a sock and one foot is without.

[Arugula Latte]

5. Oh, I wanted to devour my kids ... not just the toes.

My son had the chubbiest little thighs and I'd pretend to eat his "drumsticks." I wanted to nibble their little chubby arms and cheeks and little tushes ... everything. Lately I've been torturing my son (now nine) by showing him a photo of himself (looking plump and succulent) at six months and saying: "See -- you were my little baby nugget and I wanted to eat you!" Parents -- we're nuts, what can we say?

[Arugula Latte]

6. I'm just as nuts about my furry children, too.

My kitties had better watch it!

[Sequoia]

7. All the time.

Lord was she cute. Now when I try to kiss her little soft cheek, it's "stop, I can't breath, or, that's enough already. Ah, 10 year olds.

[laheina]

11. That sounds exactly like my son. :)

He just turned eleven. :)

:rofl:

[Sequoia]

13. I told my kid to put a big rock on her head so she'd stop growing

and be my little baby. She thinks I'm crazy now, but I told her, you just wait till you have one of your own. She's going to pass me in about a year or so and I'll have to look up at her. Sigh.

[Left Is Write]

8. Yes - baby toes are adorable.

:D

[seaglass]

9. Nope never did. There is this overwhelming feeling of love

that you want to express physically, holding, touching, kissing but I don't remember any desire to kiss toes.:-)

[BlueIris]

10. Oh, okay. So, I'm not the only person whose mind doesn't

automatically generate a desire to kiss toes whenever I see a mammal with toes.

[laheina]

12. Not just any mammal,

mini-mammals. Fur is optional. ;)

[purr]

14. YUK!! No way...

I have a 5, 2, and 8 month old.. NO WAY. Of course I have a foot phobia where I'm scared to death of feet.

[Xithras]

15. Babies thrive with physical contact.

They want to be touched, kissed, rubbed, bounced, tickled, and bellybubbled all the time. Baby toes are perfectly clean, so I never had any problem kissing or playing with them either.

[mongo]

16. 76%?

No wonder the foot fetish is so common...