Were you good about having your photo taken as a child?

As a child, I think I was. I have a fair amount of them. I also was a people pleaser.

My girls have always let me take as many pictures of them as I wanted, but let someone else take their picture and they would freeze up. I don't see evidence of that in my school pictures, so maybe I was ok with anyone taking my picture.

I don't recall shying away from the camera until I was a teenager. But people didn't take nearly as many photos back then...

I always loved having my photo taken (but in most of them I wasn't really smiling much... I saved that toothy grin until my adult years!) However, we really weren't a picture taking family. I have a photo box of my photos from birth to marriage, and the stack of pictures I have from birth through elementary school is probably 1 1/2" thick. Not many!

I never minded having my picture taken as a child. Now I'm not a fan!

I actually made a whole layout about this after a discussion with a friend who was a reluctant photo subject as an adult. I was about 3 when I started hating having my picture taken. I have the exact picture that marks the start of it - me sitting on the back stairs in a bikini sulking angrily and refusing to look at the camera. I didn't like being told to smile and not knowing how to (I got a lot of "not like that! stop pulling that face!" when I would try) and I didn't like the attention - I was a very self conscious child. My parents do have a lot of photos of me, and a lot are actually smiling or at least trying, but also a lot of me frowning and sulking, looking uncomfortable and trying to avoid the camera.

(My family has been very keen on photography ever since the Box Brownie came out - we have countless albums full of photos. I realized last year though, no Santa photos of me though - only some of my brother. My mother thinks it was because I didn't like the attention, or because I saw through the Santa BS quite young, or maybe didn't like sitting on a creepy old man's knee.)

Anyway, in my 20s I stopped feeling so self conscious and now (in my 40s) I am a HUGE proponent of being in pictures, and sharing pictures, regardless of how you feel you look. I share lots of unflattering pictures of myself (if that's how they turn out). I make a photo book every year for my family back home that's mostly just selfies. I'm always on people who are reluctant to get into the photo because it's not about YOU, it's about giving images of yourself to the people who love you. My nana cut herself out of most of the family photos -- it's such a loss. I would have loved to see pictures of her as a young mother, with her babies, with her parents... all those opportunities lost.

I have never liked having my photo taken. I'm much better now. Even as a kid it always started a fight because i was uncooperative. My son is the same way now.