My 4yr old won’t stop hugging or touching people. I need help
Really need suggestions for this. My 4 yr old daughter is what I call affectionately agressive. Does not understand hands off, and it is clearly very annoying to other kids. She is very loving but doesn’t know when to stop. Always in everyone’s face and touching and poking and hugging and everything. Also bothersome when playing like will take a toy from her cousins and run away from them with it.
She has more of a boy temperament and majority of our friends have boys and her cousins are all boys so that is her closest contacts for kids. But also in her daycare (just started recently) she does the touching and not giving space thing.
She is extremely bright but this is her one problem area. I just don’t know what to do. Very enthusiastic but agressive with playing rough often and in everyone’s face constantly.
She already got sick from 2 days in daycare because a kid there was sick and she was too close of course. So my whole household is sick now including baby. I need to nip this in the butt before school starts. I cant be sick constantly. 😭 we have tired so many things but nothing is working I am out of ideas. Tried even explaining how we got sick because she is too close to the kids. I need advice badly.
Posted Jun 7, 2026, 4:29 AM UTC