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
Tourette’s, Tics, and Family Photos: What Actually Helps Neurodivergent Family Children Resources A tic showing up mid session is not a problem to edit around apologetically, it’s just part of the moment. One of the most common worries I hear from parents is what if the tics show up right when the camera clicks, so
Hi, Hi, Hi We were driving home from dinner, nothing special about the night, just one of those ordinary Tuesday kind of dinners where you’re tired and the car is quiet and you’re just trying to get everyone home and into pajamas, and he was buckled into his car seat behind me looking out the
Nonverbal Kids and Family Photos: No Forced Eye Contact, No Forced Smile Neurodivergent Family Children Resources If your child communicates without spoken words, through an AAC device, sign, gesture, or a system built between the two of you over years, the idea of a photographer asking them to say cheese can feel like it’s asking
Newborn St. Louis If you are sitting there right now counting days since your due date, doing the math in your head, wondering if you already missed your window for newborn photos, take a breath, you have not missed anything, and I say that as someone who has sat with this exact worry next to
Sensory Processing Disorder and Family Photos: What Actually Helps Neurodivergent Family Children Resources Most family sessions don’t fall apart because of one big meltdown. They fall apart in small pieces, an itchy tag, sun straight in the eyes, grass that feels wrong underfoot, a breeze that’s just a little too loud against a sensitive ear.
I don’t talk about this part very often. Not because it’s hard to say, but because it’s almost too big to say right. Some moments you carry around so carefully you’re scared that putting words to them will make them smaller than they actually were. But this is the moment everything I do comes from,
Fall Sessions Are Open, And This Is My Favorite Light All Year I say this every single year and I mean it every single year, fall light in St. Louis does something that no other season does, it comes in low and gold in the late afternoon and it makes everybody look like the best
The Creek Is Still Warm, And I Have A Few Spots Left Before Summer Lets Go There is a very specific kind of light that only shows up at the creek in late summer, gold and low and catching the water just right, and every year I tell myself I am going to slow down
