Folder 1 of family vacation photos General family/scenery photos: 44
Baby photos: 55
Folder 2 of family vacation photosGeneral family/scenery photos: 47
Baby photos: 92
Interesting, isn't it? The baby isn't unique to the vacation experience, but for some reason it wins the photo numbering contest hands-down. I was looking through some of my photo files today and was struck by this. I'm wondering if following your kid throughout the day with the camera can give them the idea that every move they make is wonderful, in which case before long you are going to have one heck of a spoiled kid on your hands? Being excessively photographed and videoed doesn't seem to do anything real constructive for them in the way of making them behave better or feel more loved (if it did, we'd notice a remarkably drastic improvement in kid's behavior all across the US since digital cameras became so popular!). And what about those of us who were born in the dark ages of the 70's and 80's, and even the early 90's, whose parents because they did not have access to the technology (or simply because they had more to do in a day than sit around snapping pictures of us) did not record our first, second, and one-thousandth smile to post on the internet or burn on DVD for every living relative in the family? I'm definitely sure that the number of photos in our family album of my early childhood is under 10,000. Hey, my self-esteem may never recover--I can sue someone for this I think! .....JUST KIDDING! Yes, the first 5-10 years of my life went pretty much undocumented by today's standards--and I think I turned out ok in spite of it.
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