A photo album full of snapshots with highlights from your childhood. On the potty for the first time. Or a video in which you happily hop through the garden in bare buttocks. Wonderful, isn't it, those childhood memories? Until that entire album is online, visible to the whole world. That happened to a young Austrian woman. Since 2009, Mom and Dad have shared more than 500 (!) childhood photos of their daughter on their public page. Despite at least as many pleas from her to remove them again. With the advent of social media, it is becoming just as tempting for parents to share photos as it is for the average teenager. But where is the limit? Where does the right to privacy for your child begin?
As mom blogger you probably also have to deal with kids who are not too eager to appear online again. Joyce indicates that her 11-year-old suddenly shouts:"I have a right to privacy mom!" The discussion has been held at her home many times before. Fortunately, her kids also understand that blogging is really mom's job. And that doesn't just include new sneakers and fun trips (although many other people still think so 😉 ). From time to time she wants to be able to publish photos. Her son makes distinctions these days; if it's for 'work', feel free to take a picture and post it online . But if the gentleman is stretched out on the couch, he has a 'right to privacy'. And I actually quite agree with him.
How you can post hundreds of photos online against the will of your kids is beyond me. The Austrian father's argument:after all, it is our child † That that child would rather not be online on countless bare buttocks photos can be seen he forget for the sake of convenience. Because the album is doing so well with friends. Downside:Now that “the child” has grown up, she is suing her parents. Well, you might get that if you go for likes.
Have you ever had a discussion with your child about photos of them you post on social media? And if your mini-me is still too small to discuss, do you even think about how they would feel about it later in life? Joyce sometimes jokes to her son that it is high time to draw up a contract. However, as a parent, I think you can do nothing but respect their wish and right to privacy. And don't forget the wishes of other parents. I have little problem with it myself, but I notice that some parents do not like it at all when photos of their children appear in, for example, swimwear. And that is their right.
It remains a debatable subject. If all parents think differently about it, just wait until your mini-me becomes mature enough to "meddle" with it. In any case, Joyce no longer takes photos too often and asks permission from her children. And if she forgets her child's right to privacy for a moment, then her son just makes a terrible face. Because mom doesn't want pictures like this on her blog 🙂 . Then she has little choice and she sighs:“yes, you also have the right to privacy, child…”
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