Last month Babble.com contacted me and wanted to use one of my images for a story they were going to do this month on bribing.   They saw the photo on flickr and it was of my children.  I called the shot: I bribe my children and it was referring to me trying to get photos of them and the fact that I bribe them to at least pretend to cooperate.  So the time I took that shot, I gave them $1 each and they were happy campers and I was able to get a few cute little snaps of them.

One of my friends IM’d me the other day and said: “Hey you are a bad parent”, I said thanks and so are you! ;)  She said no really you are and then linked me to the story with my photo.  So apparently Babble has a series where all of the articles are in a group called Bad Parent and it’s about parents who do things that they shouldnt - like let their children watch too much tv, etc.  I haven’t read the articles, I just saw the titles.

So now I’ve been labeled as a bad parent for my $1 bribe (not really, it’s just funny that is the title on my photo).  Oh well, if that’s the charge then I’m guilty.  But let me tell you these people must not know of that crazy illness called PKS aka Photographers Kid Syndrome.  Oh we photographers struggle with this, many of us have even thought of asking our clients if we could hang photos of their children in our homes because, well, our clients children typically cooperate much more than our own children.  I get big sighs, I get “put the camera away” comments, they run, yep my kids avoid the camera at all costs.  So this bad parent has to resort to bribing.

Here’s my label photo below, I have many labels for myself, but for today it’s Bad Parent.  Look my happy little bribees (is that a new word?).