captain_slinky | Not sure I handled that right?

Molly and Cougar played at the park today after school, and Cougar's little sister ("Johnnie") who is maybe 5 years old came along with us. I offered to watch all the kids so that their big brother (Joshua) could get a few things done. This is maybe the 4th or 5th "Play Date" we've had over the course of us all living in the same neighborhood and going to the same school and being in the same class, so it's not like we're * familiar* or anything.

Walking back to their house afterwards, the littlest girl grabbed my hand and kind of cuddled into me, she's very sweet :)

So then we were at their house and the kids are running around, and Johnny comes up to me and gives me a GREAT BIG HUG and I say "Awwwwww thank you!" and then she turns her face up to me all puckered-up in the universal little kid sign of "Gimmee beeeeeg keess!" and I just instinctively bent down to kiss her right on the lips!

I stopped just short of actually kissing her and just kind of air-kissed at her making a "MWAA!" sound, which seems to have satisfied her and she went off being a kid again, but I have mixed feelings about this...

I *think* I handled it okay? I mean, how weird would it be to have sombody you barely know kiss your kid? But on the other side, kids NEED lots of hugs and snuggles and kisses... would it have been better if I had gone in to a long dissertation about how it's inappropriate and wrong and oh look now you have a hang-up about kissing that you can tell your therapist about in 20 years.