Today I attended my little girls first Christmas performance and it was truly lovely. (The photo above is of her enjoying some celebratory ice-cream after a fab performance!)
The pre-school nativity concert was full of cute costumes, fabulous singing and a few funny moments that I captured on camera.
The Instagram addict in me wants to share my little nativity star in all her twinkling glory, but I’m respecting the schools wishes not to share any of my fab pics on social media or through my blog.
Many parents think it’s unfair that photos can’t be shared online – precious moments captured for all to see is surely fine- but it’s important I believe to respect the wishes of the school in their policies to safeguard children.
Over the past week my timeline has been filled with wonderful photos and videos of nativities and concerts and although I’ve loved them I’ve wondered how many have been published without a thought to other parents who perhaps don’t want their child’s image shared online.
Many children need to be kept offline for various reasons (I know this from my experiences as a nursery nurse and nanny) and yet parents still feel it ok to ignore the polite requests of the school or nursery and share their images online.
Today we were asked to photograph only our own children and to keep the images for our own private viewing.
I’ve respected this and I really hope others in our pre-school will do the same. If not, we’ll lose the chance to photograph of film precious moments ever again.
Having said all this, I know in many schools Policies are a lot more relaxed and parents can take photos and share – and this of course is then up to individuals on what they want to do.
It’s a tricky one isn’t it? Christmas nativities – should we care and not share?
December 16, 2013
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Our school said nothing about not taking pictures or sharing – which surprised me, as I was expecting them to ask us not to snap, or at least not to share.
I shared two pictures – and in both I made sure that the only child visible was my own, and cropped the photos (making them rather blurred in the process) to be sure that nobody else’s child was shown.
While I’m ok with sharing pictures of MY son online I don’t think it’s my place to decide to share other people’s – and certainly not without permission just because they happen to be standing close to my son.