Scrapbookers often include other people’s words in their scrapbooks. If you are also a mom, for instance, you are probably writing down all the cute things your kid says.
Do you ever include their photos that they took? I bought my daughter this camera:
for her second birthday. Her camera is full again so today I am going through those photos. I deleted about half of the photos because they were dark or blurry (where you could not see what it was supposed to be at all). The rest are on my laptop. I am planning on selecting a few to scrapbook to get her perspective on the world.
She takes photographs of me:
And photos of her toys:
And asks me to take her photo:
I love that I have photos from my daughter’s perspective. Quality-wise they are far from perfect, but because they are from my daughter, I see them as perfect.
If you have a child, hand them your camera. Or, if you are afraid of them damaging your camera (I am), then get them the Fisher-Price Kid-Tough Digital Camera . If you have an older child, they might be taken photos with their camera phone or laptop. You should consider including some of these photos in your scrapbook.
Do you ever hand a camera to your kids? What do you do with the photos?
Stephanie Medley-Rath is a sociologist and scrapbooker who studies scrapbooking and memory keeping. Scrapworthy Lives is a blog focused on her sociological analysis of scrapbooking, with a sprinkling of posts about Stephanie's own scrapbooking projects.
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