Mum’s Touching Idea Of Drawing A ‘Hug Button’ On Her Son’s Hand Goes Viral

A mother has melted hearts after she helped her anxious son during his first day of school — by drawing a matching ‘hug button’ on their palms.

Mum-of-three Louise Mallett, 30, from Ipswich in the UK, has made a heartwarming technique so that her son, Max will get through his first day of school without her. She drew matching love hearts on the palm of their hands, telling her son that by pressing the heart, they could send hugs to each other.

Instantly, the�touching method turned out to be a success, so she shared her idea on�Facebook page�The Motherload.

She wrote how she came up with the idea after she saw her�’littlest baby’ a bit emotional during his first day of school.

“I could tell he was feeling a little emotional this morning so we had a chat and came up with the idea of having a heart each and if we pressed it it sent a hug to the other one (he said he cried as he missed�me on his first half day last week) it totally worked!”

She added that she also drew a spare heart on his arm ‘in case the one on his hand wore off.’

“We ‘charged’ them by holding hands on the way to school and when I picked it up I said did you get my hugs and he happily said yep! He also said “I pressed it for a long time mummy but I didn’t cry ” so I said ahhhh that will be that big squeeze I get , did you get my big squeeze back ? ” and he said yep ! Bless him , here’s to many more happy days at school while I sit at home with the dog and cry that all my babies are at school now�😭😭😭”

Her post has now gone viral with some mothers thinking about copying the idea. One�wrote: “Tears in my eyes reading this. So sweet. I’m totally stealing the idea!! My daughter starts her pre-school for two mornings a week. Her first settling in day is next Monday. We have been together every day since day one.�It’s a hard decision to let her go but I know she needs to socialise and meet other children/staff in preparation for nursery in January. I’ll be sobbing my heart out with a G&T.”

Source:�Dailymail.co.uk

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