Tip 5: Photo for your blogs dos and donts

Photos captures a million words. And often times, we wished we had captured many sentimental moments in our family but did not. Hence, having a camera nearby always is pretty handy. But I realised what we deem special and proud of ourselves may be different one day to our children who may find it inappropriate. So, the rule of the thumb when posting photos of your baby on the internet is to avoid excesses and only the necessary. I often make a point to censor the photos when necessary too. Yes daddies, its your blog and you can do whatever you want since you are the head of the household. But a Japanese principle of respecting everyone holds true and I think I will try to respect my child's future point of view and preferences even though as a baby its not fully developed yet.

I often times ensure I save the photos that I edit for censoring so that I always made a copy of the original photo. Then I rename that copy with a symbol that has undergone edit or censoring. This hopefully saves me any lawsuits in the future for infringing a person's privacy. But I am sure if we communicate well, our children will know we mean well and is all excited being a daddy, especially for the first time. Holding life in your hands is a very special moment. You want to value it, protect it, nurture it and love a new life deeply. And what better way to capture these moments as you do.

(Photo shows Haruka at 1 hour old.)