OMG! I suppose I'll have to write a letter denouncing hugging too. I admit it. I hugged several students while congratulating them on getting a "I" at UIL contest yesterday. Oh, and they hugged me too!!! Can't say who hugged whom first (probably my kid first, though can't be sure), but the act was done. I even shook hands with one of their teachers and patted a second teacher and the principal (in front of his wife) on the shoulder. For shame!
It is sad when it has come to this. When I was young I was the huggy type. I remember often hugging my 7th grade choir teacher and thinking nothing of it. (Oh shock! I know, he was a man!) If it were these days instead he would be considered a perv and probably lose his job. And they wonder why children have self esteem problems.