YOUR childhood photos?

Valgal

Valgal

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Sarah did a lo of how she doesn't have photos of when she was kid playing basketball, and it brought to mind something I wonder about sometimes.

Do you wish you had as many pics of yourself as a kid as YOUR children do? I would really love to see more pictures of myself as a child, and videos and stuff. I'd REALLY LOVE to see videos of myself. Apparently I was quite a cutie. But at the same time, not having all that stuff probably means I remember what my life was really like, not just the smiley faces that we like to portray for photos, kwim? I grew up in a bit of a mess, so I have to reflect on my life and some of it remains a mystery and I like to try to remember different things and let some phases of my life slip away. I wonder sometimes if my kids have too many pics? Do you think that's possible?

Dramatic for a Monday morning, I know.
 
I was the first born... so I have a TON of pictures! lol. My mom seriously took me to the studio for pictures like sixteen times in my first year. And they were really good about snap shots, too. It would be really fun to watch videos of myself as a baby now!

Teddy is going to have too many pictures. I know it! lol. I take a picture of him every day for his first year and I'm taking a video of him, too. I'm going to do one of those one second every day videos for his first year. I'm only two and a half months in, but I already like watching it. Totally one of my favorite projects ever!
 
I was an only child and my dad LOVED taking photos, so I have thousands of shots. No videos though.

Rachel is an only child and her mama (me) loves to take pics as well, so she has thousands of photos too :) Although as she gets older I notice that there are less photos...one, she's in school most of the week, and two, she doesn't want her photo taken often at this tween point in her life.
 
Well, I was 1 of 5 kids. I guess my parents couldn't keep up, lol! There are like, 4 pictures of me in my baby book. :thumbdown:
 
I don't have video of me... nor do I have much of J when he was little... just never remember to take video. :glare: Otherwise, I do have a lot of photos of me, surprising since it was so expensive and we lived comfortably, but not "rich"... I'm an only child, so that did help. Then when I turned 8, my grandma gave me a camera... that turned me into a shutterbug. haha

Kiddo has many gigabytes of photos and video.... :o
 
I think I got my love of photos and documenting from my mom. I would look through my childhood albums for hours and hours. (neither of my kids seem very interested in looking through photos - lucas way more than lily though at least. lily has NO interest!)
 
I do have photos from my childhood. I have a baby-album and than several albums until I turned 18. But those photos are all from special occasions like birthdays, Christmas, New Year's Eve, summer vacation etc... Unfortunately I don't have lots of everyday moments photos like playing basketball or playing outside.
 
I'll warn you that I'm kind of salty about this subject. :p I was the youngest child, so I have some childhood photos but not a ton. To this day, my mom cannot take a photo without chopping off someone's head. I don't know how she manages it. The thing that makes me the most sad is that all the rolls of film from my high school graduation got lost at some point, so there are literally no picture of that OR my college graduation (because neither my parents or ex husband took any). Sigh... Out of all the undocumented occasions/moments of my life, those are the photos I'd most like to have.
 
I would love to have more pictures of my two oldest...I was not in a good situation and had to do the store bought disposable cameras and waited so long to develop. Plus it was a bit expensive for me then. I lost a ton of them when I separated from their sperm donor (as they call him). And now they are older and not letting me because they like their selfies better ha ha.
 
I have a surprising amount of photos of myself as a child given that a) my parents divorced when I was about a year old and my mom worked full-time as a single mom and b) developing photos was kind of a "luxury" back then. Now, organization is a whole other topic...our childhood photos are mostly buried in a gigantic rubbermaid tote. But that's okay - it's super fun to dig through it once in awhile and look at it all. The funny thing is, I don't remember my mom being all in my face with a camera all the time (so hopefully my kids won't remember that either! haha!), and now she rarely takes photos, probably because I do enough for everyone!

We do even have some videos - I remember when my mom got remarried, they had this giant camcorder that they'd set up on a tripod in the corner for certain occasions. I don't love watching those videos because I was kinda a whiny kid... ;) Hmmm...wonder where my youngest gets that from?!
 
I was the oldest of 5 and there are a ton of pics of me. My dad was into photography so he always had the camera out. My siblings also have quite a bit of photos, but not as many since my parents split when I was 12.

I'm thankful for the photos. However, the main reason I started scrapping was because, out of ALL of the photos of us as kids, there is NO documentation to what they are. So I don't know dates, what we were doing, places etc. So that was my main reason to start scrapping.
 
I love looking thorugh my old childhood albums, and while there could always have been more pictures, what I'm missing most is the story behind it all. The story I tell my children about our every day. My mother has forgotten so many of the details and those will never come back, so whatever I do not remember of my childhood will never be something my children will know about me.
 
My mom lost pretty much all of my baby photos in a fire. So I have very few.

However my kids have TONS lol!
 
Sadly I have almost nothing when it comes to pictures of me growing up my family home burnt down Christmas Day while we are at family for dinner and we lost everything. My mom managed to find a few albums in the remains but not much. I'm not one to remember a whole lot either I just get occasional flashbacks of my childhood. :(
 
I have some photos of me growing up; they're old though because I'm old - LOL. They're quite discolored (at least the ones up until about 6 or 7 years old). We actually had a dark room in our house (my dad loved photography and ran the photography club at my Jr. High). Anyway, we developed our own film and printed our own photos so you'd think there would be a lot of childhood photos but there are not (my dad didn't like to take people photos - I can remember my mom so many times saying "get a picture of the girls!" :D

I don't have hardly any photos from about 7th grade on up through college though due to losing a big box of photos to a flooded basement :crying: I have so many great high school memories but no photos to go with them, which makes me sad, but at least my memories are intact for the time being.

As far as video - there are quite a few "reels" of me as a young child - the kind that you put on a projector and it spins around and they're silent :blink: No such thing as a video camera when I was a kid.
 
My parents were pretty good about photographing the big moments. Trips, holidays, awards, school plays and dances, etc. By middle school I had a cheap camera, so I have lots of photos of things I did with my friends throughout middle school, high school, and college. I even have videos starting at about 12 years old (1987) because my father bought a video camera when my sister and I were in a play.

What my parents weren't good at was doing something with the photos. To this day, most of their photos are in a drawer in the envelopes they brought them home in. I've digitized some, but I haven't done anything with them yet.

I take a lot of photos, but the way I see it, only the ones I scrap and print count. My kids will never go through every photo on my computer. Realistically, the 1 album I print each year is our photo collection. So we do have a lot, but not a ridiculous amount (which we would if I printed even 1/4 of the photos I take).

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Dh doesn't have his baby pictures anymore either. About 10 years ago his mom lost her entire house in a flood. His dad had some at his house, but I think the majority were with her.
 
I am glad my mum has at least one photo album full of baby and childhood photos for each one of the 4 of us. It's fun to look back!
 
I'm an only and I hardly have any pics of me as a kid. I have a lot of scrapbook pages of my girls but I haven't printed very many pics of my girls :o
 
There are exactly 3 photos of me before the age of 5. Ah the middle child! LOL


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There are a fair amount of photos of me as a child but they are mostly event/vacation/celebration photos vs. everyday photos. My mom remembers very little abt my childhood and next to nothing abt how I was vs. what I did.

As my children grow up, I wish that I knew if I was like that when I was little, too. I wish I knew what things I thought abt, what quirks I had, what made me me, the things I personally find 1000x more interesting than another birthday or Christmas layout.
 
ellasspace said:
Sadly I have almost nothing when it comes to pictures of me growing up my family home burnt down Christmas Day while we are at family for dinner and we lost everything. My mom managed to find a few albums in the remains but not much. I'm not one to remember a whole lot either I just get occasional flashbacks of my childhood. :(
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I can't imagine anything much sadder than that happening at Christmas for a child (let alone any other time of the year!) :(:(

When I was younger, I spent hours pouring over our family's photo albums (which were kept up high in a wardrobe for some reason, instead of on the bookshelves centrally in the house). I'd love to have had access to the quality of photobooks then that I have now then (as my parents would have also!). There was something special about not having access to digital technology, print film etc. Photos were more scarce and quite a wonderful thing. Not to say that isn't the case now, but photos are more common - though I don't think as many people print them out anymore.

For my family, I keep a yearly scrapbook album, and each of our three children have a '1st year' album. Occasionally a special event (such as a special birthday or trip) get an album of their own, but that is rare).
 
My real father was a photographer. And we took a lot of photos. But some things happened and my mom just got rid of most of the pictures of us kids. So yea I wish I still had those pictures. I mean I have the memories for the most part. More than anything I wish I had pictures of my dad because I do not remember him really. He died when I was like five. And I wonder if I take enough pictures of my kids. Mine are older now and we dont do many things together anymore now that my oldest is out of the house and works, has kids and all. I think being digital now parents tend to take a whole lot more pictures than maybe parents did 20 years ago.
 
My mom was into photography so there is alot of photos of us when we were kids. I totally appreciate that she did that :)
 
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