Thursday, October 31, 2013

How to Get Your Kids to Smile for the Camera

Every mother wants to take cute pictures of her kids with their natural-looking smiles.  Here's my advice on how to take your Halloween photo session from expressions like these...

Zero Excitement

 Smiling at you pains me.


I think I'm stepping on something funny.

Make it stop.

...to genuine childlike happiness!!



Here are my two very important tips to making this happen.

1.  Chocolate is a great motivator.  Offer chocolate for smiles.
2.  In the words of the great Winston Churchill, "Never, never give up."

3 comments:

  1. Yep, bribing with candy always works.

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  2. Hilarious! Although the first photo looks very vogue :)

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    1. That's a fair point. They look suitably bored enough to be on the cover of Vogue. :)

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