12/12/2025
THIS is why I have made this completely separate service from my main photography business. Protecting the privacy of your children is so important! For those who feel called to full privacy from the public eye, feel free to message me for more information. 🩷📸 And no— these sessions are not more expensive than my others. That would just be wrong. 🫶🏼
Your kids don’t know they’re content. 🙃
That’s it. That’s what I couldn’t stop thinking about.
We are the first generation raising kids alongside the internet and there’s no one ahead of us waving back with wisdom.
No playbook. Just parents doing our best in a world that didn’t exist when we were kids, inside a culture that rewards the share and makes documenting life feel almost as important as living it. 💛
I was in it. Joyfully. A new mom, shipwrecked by the miracle of it all, wanting witnesses to this chapter I’d waited so long to live.
Then one day a stranger recognized my daughter and asked her something I had shared here. My daughter looked at me, confused. Mom, how does she know that? Something cracked open in me that day.
It’s been nearly three years since my kids’ faces have been on this app. And now, with AI here, with faces being scraped and used and manipulated in ways we can’t even fully understand yet, I feel it in my body when I see certain things online.
The bathtime photos. The potty training updates. The hard conversations filmed and posted for engagement. My chest tightens. Not in judgment of the parent, but in grief for the child who didn’t get to choose. 🥲
I’ve changed my mind about what I share. And honestly, I think changing your mind is one of the most beautiful things a human can do. It means you’re still paying attention.
I still let you into my life as a mom. I just do it differently now. I let you in without letting them out.✨
Every family gets to decide what feels right for them and I’m not here to tell anyone what to do with their own corner of the internet.
But I know that for me, with the size of this audience, sharing my kids started to feel less like inviting people in and more like something I couldn’t take back.
So I stopped. And it’s become one of my most sacred boundaries.
If you’ve been thinking about this too, just know you’re allowed to change your mind and it doesn’t have to mean you did anything wrong before. We’re all just learning as we go. 💛
