Carmen Esteban, psychologist: ‘Giving kisses and hugs is not a social skill, it’s something that we do out of love and we don’t always want to do it’

Carmen Esteban, psychologist: ‘Giving kisses and hugs is not a social skill, it’s something that we do out of love and we don’t always want to do it’

Start them young on education around consent. That is the premise on which Carmen Esteban, a psychologist who specializes in neonatal, infant and adolescent stages, has based her new Spanish language storybook Con sentimiento: El cuerpo solo se toca con permiso (With feeling: Our body can only be touched with our presmission). “From the first moment that our children begin to talk — beginning from when they’re one and a half years old, more or l…