Photoshopping makes it easy to remember our kids in a way they never were.
I really hope that parents can detect the sarcasm in my voice when I make these statements, because altering our kids’ photos is one of the most heinous things I think we can do. Is it as bad as bleaching your Honey Boo-Boo sugar pie’s teeth and hair or providing plastic surgery for tweens? No, but it’s in the same arena.
I remember when they offered “photo retouching” when I was in grade school. It happened first when I was in about the fourth grade, and they offered to “retouch” our pimples and “blemishes” for a fee. Then we could remember ourselves as beautiful and not the hideous Chud children we were.
