The family of a Wicklow woman struck by a car in Sicily has urged the public to 'hug your kids' in an update on her condition ...

It can be hard not to prompt our kids to oblige, especially if we ourselves grew up in a generation where refusing a hug or kiss was considered rude. A lot of us were children during a time when ...

"I wouldn't hug or kiss someone I don't want to so why should they!" And Angela H totally agrees: "I was forced as a child to kiss and cuddle everyone hello and goodbye and I hated it. "So with my ...

A gentle holiday reminder about kids and forced hugs: Don’t. Girl Scouts of the United States of America offers the following evergreen advice, which it just released to help families prepare ...

Children of the 80s were probably raised to blindly comply with adults; what they said went. You gave your aunty a kiss hello ...

Sensory therapy such as deep touch pressure can calm children with autism, reducing tantrums, meltdowns and hyperactivity. Stuart Jackson was on a mission. For years, he had searched for a way to ...