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Inspired by Renza-Jones mention of baby books, I wonder how many of you - those who are parents, and those who were once children - have noticed Second-Child Phenomenon: a relative absence of photographs documenting baby's first steps, first tooth, first occasion to be photographed naked on the toilet, etc.
As a second child, whose older sibling remains convinced decades later than I was the favorite, I can recall stacks of her baby pictures that were overflowing from two baby books and a shoebox. My baby book was started with the best intentions, and fizzles out at about page 6.
I was incredibly cute, as you can imagine, so that can't be the reason. I've talked to parents who agree that the euphoric compulsion to follow Baby around with a camera is almost non-existent when Kid #2 comes along.
"You've seen one high-chair picture, you've seen them all," said one dad at the office. He admits that if the third one had been a boy, he might have loaded film in the camera again, but the succession of girl babies all look alike to him. (Although the second one is cuter, sweeter, more articulate, and his favorite.)
Comments?
As a second child, whose older sibling remains convinced decades later than I was the favorite, I can recall stacks of her baby pictures that were overflowing from two baby books and a shoebox. My baby book was started with the best intentions, and fizzles out at about page 6.
I was incredibly cute, as you can imagine, so that can't be the reason. I've talked to parents who agree that the euphoric compulsion to follow Baby around with a camera is almost non-existent when Kid #2 comes along.
"You've seen one high-chair picture, you've seen them all," said one dad at the office. He admits that if the third one had been a boy, he might have loaded film in the camera again, but the succession of girl babies all look alike to him. (Although the second one is cuter, sweeter, more articulate, and his favorite.)
Comments?
