The strict rule Kylie and Jason Kelce imposed on parents with their children: "No kissing"

Kylie Kelce has opened up about one of the first parenting rules she introduced after becoming a mother, revealing that she asked relatives not to kiss her newborn daughter on the face, head or hands.

The 34-year-old podcaster, who shares four daughters with former Philadelphia Eagles star Jason Kelce , discussed the subject during a question-and-answer segment in a bonus clip of her Not Gonna Lie podcast.

Asked whether she had ever needed to establish boundaries with her own parents or her husband's parents, Kylie explained that one particular request had been straightforward to communicate.

“I asked people not to kiss her face or her head or her hands and everybody listened,” she said after thinking about the question for a brief moment. “We have a good little squad. Squad understands the assignment.”

Rather than describing a difficult family disagreement, Kylie portrayed the experience as a positive example of relatives respecting the decisions she and Jason made as new parents.

“[Our] squad is very respectful about the fact that they have raised their grown children and that this is an opportunity for them to be fun, loving grandparents and supportive,” Kylie continued. “We actually made out like thieves on this one.”

The grandparents accepted that the parents would determine how their children should be cared for. The rule also reflected the extra caution Kylie felt when her eldest daughter, Wyatt, was still a baby.

Pandemic made the couple more cautious

Kylie and Jason welcomed Wyatt in October 2019. When the COVID-19 pandemic began affecting everyday life in 2020, their daughter was around six months old, making health precautions an important consideration for the family.

Kylie explained that the uncertainty surrounding the virus, combined with her own concerns about germs, prompted them to take a careful approach.

“Being the germaphobe that I am and also the unknown with a six-month-old in your house, we locked it down pretty fast. We were very careful,” she explained. “That was the time where we set boundaries just in terms of like travel and things like that.”

“But outside of that, not really,” she added, referring to boundary setting in her family. “Everyone understands the assignment. So, we really lucked out.”

The experience appears to have helped establish a family dynamic in which Kylie and Jason could make decisions about their daughters while still relying on the support of their relatives.

The couple now have four children: Wyatt, seven, Elliotte, five, Bennett, three, and Finnley, who was around 18 months old when Kylie discussed the subject.

Their family life has attracted considerable public interest, particularly following Jason 's NFL career and the wider attention surrounding the Kelce family.

According to Us Weekly, Jason 's parents, Donna and Ed Kelce , have been involved in their grandchildren's lives, with Donna previously discussing the balance between showing affection and respecting the parents' decisions.

For Kylie , the ability to set expectations without creating tension has been an important part of that relationship. She described a family that has generally been receptive to her and Jason's approach.

Protecting the girls' privacy online

Physical boundaries are only one part of the couple's approach to parenting. Kylie has also spoken about becoming increasingly deliberate about how much of her daughters' lives she shares with the public.

During an appearance on Tay Lautner's The Squeeze podcast, she explained that the family's growing profile had changed how she viewed posting photographs of the children on social media.

“Life has gone on, and things have changed. I post infrequently overall, and I post even less frequently about our children,” she said. “I didn’t want to exclude them entirely, [but] I made it a point to stop putting their faces on my social media.”

Kylie said the release of Jason 's documentary marked a “turning point” in her thinking, as she became more conscious of the difficulty of maintaining a boundary between public interest and her children's private lives.

“I feel really strongly about going forward just for their safety to not include them in anything,” Kylie explained. “I overall want to ensure my kids’ safety, and that’s always going to be the top priority.”

She has also raised concerns about the permanence of material shared online, noting that her daughters will eventually be old enough to search for information about themselves.

“I have a lot of like running thoughts of like our kids are growing up in a world where all of this just lives forever,” she explained.

“It’s not like something happens, and you talk about it, and the story lives on through word of mouth. Our kids are going to be able to go online and search this stuff and see a full archive of all of the things that they were involved in [and] that they were discussed on.”

She added, “I tried to have some intention, like be intentional about the fact that they are going to have access to that.”

Her comments underline a consistent theme in her approach to raising Wyatt, Elliotte, Bennett and Finnley , and making decisions with their wellbeing and future in mind, even when those choices differ from what others might expect.

The no-kissing request was a relatively simple rule, but Kylie 's account shows how much easier such boundaries can be when family members understand and respect the parents' wishes.

For the Kelces, that cooperation has allowed grandparents to remain a loving and supportive presence while Kylie and Jason retain control over the decisions affecting their daughters.