As Valentine’s Day draws near, candy hearts emblazoned with XOXO, as in “hugs and kisses,” remind us that love is in the air. But why XO? Why not AB? Or XY? It turns out that XO, which has been ...

In my culture, children are expected to greet everyone at a family gathering with a hug and a kiss, but my daughter hated it.

A dog has recently melted hearts on social media after a clip of him refusing to eat before receiving a kiss on the forehead went viral on social media earlier this week. In the viral clip, shared on ...

What better place is there to express your parenting concerns than the good ol' internet? A mother under the username pleasecreateausername recently shared her frustrations about her daughter being ...

“1,000 Letters and 15,000 Kisses” screamed the headline in an 1898 edition of the English newspaper, the Halifax Evening Courier. Harriet Ann McLean, a 32-year-old laundry maid, was suing Francis ...

Hi, Carolyn: Our preteen daughter does not like physical affection, like hugs and kisses. She prefers to show affection in other ways. Her dad and I have pretty much come to grips with that fact ...