I was scoping out the location where I'll be holding a photo shoot in a few weeks and came across what I assume was a mom and her 8 or 9-year old son. She was taking photos of him and asking him to smile and pose and all of those things that you imagine happen when a mother takes photos of her son. As I was walking by, he decided it was time to turn the tables on her.
"Mom, can I take a picture of you?" he asked.
"No," she replied.
"Buy why not?" he said in that ultra-complainy voice so many kids do so well.
"You're not touching my camera," she told him. "It was too expensive."
I'm not judging her ... SERIOUSLY. I'm not. I totally and completely understand being afraid of letting anyone touch something that costs as much as a good camera does.
But.
BUT.
I totally let Alexis touch my stuff. It makes me super nervous, but I let her. With supervision.
How else will she learn to respect really expensive stuff?