Re: Boys and girls playing together
TLK, I DO care, very much. I keep an eye on things for sure. Yet my boyz are in US and in Public school and so half their classmates are girls. My middle son is my gentle giant, the other boys in his class play really rough and he tends to shy away from that. His sports are bike riding and swimming and he doesnt like rough play. So a good number of his friends are girls. I began teaching all my boys from an early age to be gentle and to be polite. So when they play with girls, they do fine but I do keep an eye for sure. If I had been blessed with a girl, I might feel differently but definitely living in the west, they have to learn how to live nicely and in harmony with the opposite sex. My boys arent supposed to give kisses except to mom and dad but eldest sometimes forgets and then he's given a reminder. That type of thing I have to keep an eye on - making sure that he doesnt get overly affectionate which he's inclined to.
Also, in the west, kissing is much more accepted as an almost casual thing. Air kissing, greeting kisses, etc are not considered to be much more than a social greeting. I made a huge faux-pas on my first trip to Pak when meeting my hubby-to-be's family by giving them each a kiss on the cheek....acceptable and expected in the west but horrifying over there lol!
You're right to watch over your girls for sure. But not to worry overly much. If a 7-yr old goes to kiss your girl just tell the little guy that this is too much affection for her so perhaps try a (hug, handshake etc)