My 92 years old Aunt Joan described her parents’ generation as being not tactile.

Tactile is a word that I don’t think I’ve ever heard before. However, I knew instinctively that my grandparents were not very touchy-feely.

Joan raised her kids with a consciousness towards being much more tactile, and from what I have seen from her daughter, the proof is in the results: her daughter, my cousin Maria, is warm and lovely. A small sample size, I know…

I was raised in the wonderfully warm environment of children should be seen and not heard or as I grew to know it as the less than tactile– shutthefuckupera.com