I’m teaching my daughter how to say no. She’s two years old and currently going through a culture shock. After spending more than a year in Germany, we visited Turkey for a month to spend time with our families. While growing up socially distanced from other people in Germany during a pandemic, she started experiencing close contact even from strangers in Turkey. Random people would stop walking on the street only to smile and talk to my daughter. The first time we went to a playground, a couple of kids came running to her, trying to hug and kiss. We know being physical is normal behavior here—it’s the Mediterranean way. However, our daughter was terrified. She didn’t like to be grabbed by strangers. She didn’t know what to do—so she held onto our hands, petrified. I told her that that’s how these kids show their love. However, I continued, that’s her body, and if she didn’t like what they do, she should say no and stop them. She should not allow anyone to do anything to her that she didn’t want.