u/DestroyerOfShitcoins

My friend wrote a Substack post recently about parents sharing their kids stories, photographs, and videos online for the world to see, and the points she made to me were very spot on, and things I haven't even really considered before.

Here's a little snippet from the post:

"For the first three years of my son’s life, I subconsciously viewed him as an extension of myself. I was awestruck at the amazing “thing” I created - what I wanted to experience my whole life was finally here - I’m a mom. It’s natural to want to express gratitude for this experience, to want to share it, to remember its milestones…

However, at 3 years old, my son is no longer this ‘thing’ I’m experiencing. He has unmistakably, undoubtedly become his own unique individual person. I am now a mom (guide/protector/etc.) to this other human being. I think part of it has to do with THAT: me honoring his wishes as his own person and knowing 3 years old is not old enough to express what he desires as far as how much or little he wants to be shared on internet.

Another part of it is what it means to put yourself on the internet - it basically means that you are for consumption. As a millennial, by the time I was putting myself on the internet, I was in college and able to make my own decisions about it, able to garner enough understanding about how I wanted to be consumed - (through a mostly creative + inspirational lens)."

If you'd like to read more, please feel free to give my friends post a read, and if you really like it, please like and share it with others who may care to read it:

https://amandathememorykeeper.substack.com/p/on-posting-pictures-of-our-kids-on

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