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You’re not too fat and your hair looks fine
Ok, are you that mom that has a million pictures of her children, but hardly any of herself? At our studio, our session fee is the same whether you bring in one child or your whole family (well, if it’s extended family it’s a bit more). When I am talking with the mom about her session I always ask, ” Would you like you and your husband to be in the portrait as well?” Invariably, she says, “Oh…I still have a few pounds to lose,” or “Eh…I need to get my hair cut and colored – no….just the children.”
Moms…ok, we need to talk. When you are taking pictures of your children at the park, the Botanical Gardens, in front of your Christmas tree…please ask someone to take a picture of you with your children! These fun memories captured in photos are not just for us – imagine our children as adults looking back at their childhood photos – they want to see you, with them. We get so caught up in having portraits of our children, that we forget that our portrait is just as important to our child.
When I think of this, I am reminded of the time a few years ago when I was talking to another mom at my son’s school. She said that her sister had died unexpectedly at 40. She was sorting through her sister’s family photos and it struck her that there were tons and tons of photos of her sister’s three children, but only a couple that included her sister. It really saddened her that the children would not have many photos to remember their mother by.
A mom blogger recently talked about the importance of being in photos with her children – even though she is still “fluffy” after recent childbirth, she decided it was more important to be there for her children.
I’m going to make a goal of being in the picture with my children more this year (I’ll just cover my fluff with a kid or a strategically placed something!) – I hope you will too!
