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A positive story for a change.
Me, the wife and our two year old son were on a boat in Norway last weekend, a cruise ship was in port so there were loads of Americans in town.
Our Fjord boat trip was fairly busy but we were the only people to take a kid onboard. As always our son drew plenty of positive attention. Towards the end of the trip our son was asleep so we were just having a rest next to him. A 60ish year old American lady approaches us and tells us what a beautiful family we have and could she have our email address to send us some pictures.
We forgot about this, but this morning we received a really touching email from a 'grandma missing her grandkids' which went on to say how much she just enjoyed watching us with him on the boat, attached were a few pictures she captured of us with him (we were totally oblivious at the time).
I thought this was interesting for a few reasons:
1) Until I told this story to a friend today neither my wife or I thought, discussed or even considered the negative connotations of this or how some parents may have reacted.
2) The complete innocence of the lady taking the pictures. Maybe she's from a quiet town or just from another time where it never even occurred to her that we could have taken it very badly.
3) Having had that conversation today, it made me a little sad that I've seen/see so many lovely moments whilst out and about with my camera that I would love to have captured for the parents, but sadly society doesn't really allow that, particularly as a 30 something male.
Bergen was stunning by the way, it comes highly highly recommended as a 'city break', even with a two year old!
Bergen by -Harry_S-
Me, the wife and our two year old son were on a boat in Norway last weekend, a cruise ship was in port so there were loads of Americans in town.
Our Fjord boat trip was fairly busy but we were the only people to take a kid onboard. As always our son drew plenty of positive attention. Towards the end of the trip our son was asleep so we were just having a rest next to him. A 60ish year old American lady approaches us and tells us what a beautiful family we have and could she have our email address to send us some pictures.
We forgot about this, but this morning we received a really touching email from a 'grandma missing her grandkids' which went on to say how much she just enjoyed watching us with him on the boat, attached were a few pictures she captured of us with him (we were totally oblivious at the time).
I thought this was interesting for a few reasons:
1) Until I told this story to a friend today neither my wife or I thought, discussed or even considered the negative connotations of this or how some parents may have reacted.
2) The complete innocence of the lady taking the pictures. Maybe she's from a quiet town or just from another time where it never even occurred to her that we could have taken it very badly.
3) Having had that conversation today, it made me a little sad that I've seen/see so many lovely moments whilst out and about with my camera that I would love to have captured for the parents, but sadly society doesn't really allow that, particularly as a 30 something male.
Bergen was stunning by the way, it comes highly highly recommended as a 'city break', even with a two year old!
Bergen by -Harry_S-
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