What Fall Mini Sessions At Unique Footprints Actually Look Like Fall is here again in St Louis, or it is about to be, and if you are a parent of a neurodivergent kid you already know what that means, it means the group texts start flying about fall pictures and pumpkin patches and matching flannel […]
Two Friends, Finally For a long time making friends was the thing I quietly grieved the most, more than the words, more than the milestones everybody else warns you about, because making friends is so social, so unspoken, so much a language kids just seem to absorb out of thin air, and Levi never absorbed
When Anxiety Is the Reason You Haven’t Booked Photos Yet Neurodivergent Family Children Resources Sometimes it isn’t scheduling or budget holding a family back from booking photos. It’s anxiety, either your child’s or your own, or honestly, both at once. Maybe it’s the thought of a new place, a stranger with a camera, being watched
Six Years for One Bike Ride It took six years to teach him to ride a bike, five to eleven, and I don’t say that to impress you with our patience, I say it because most people don’t think twice about riding a bike, you just get on and go, but riding a bike asks
What PDA Looks Like During a Photo Session, and Why We Don’t Push Neurodivergent Family Children Resources Pathological demand avoidance, PDA, means a direct instruction, even a gentle one, can trigger real resistance, not because your child doesn’t want to do the thing, but because the demand itself feels threatening. Traditional photography is basically a
