Why my kids, need to just be kids | Klutch photography| Vancouver family photographer

I'm very passionate about my kids not owning devices and having social media accounts (along with very limited wifi and it's supervised). I believe in kids being kids, letting them be bored, having chores, using their imagination and spending one on one time with my people.

I'm not a scientist, I do not have a degree in Psychology but I can tell you it's been one of the BEST decisions I've made in my life as a parent without reports telling me I should. They are not always happy with me, I DON'T FUCKING CARE. Why, because my job is to do the best to grow them into strong, confident, smart thinking and kind people not to make best friends with my kids.  If my kids wanted to eat candy for dinner every night I would say fuck no, this is no different!

This article right here (from Your Modern Family- The scary truth about what's hurting our kids) is why I do me, why I do this"NOT THE NORM" deprived my children of technology, make them play outside, give them chores and have consequences style of parenting.  The world is HARD (as is), why would I give them access to something that will cause them to dought themselves, drain their imagination and give them anxiety at such a young age. 

They will have a phone in high school (at some point), my hope is that they will be older and street smarter by then to understand the amazing way to use these devices and to be safe and smart about it.  

If your child is suffering from mental illness please read this article, it might add some light or help a little!

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Do you believe in signs? | Klutch Photography | Vancouver family photograper

I know some of you will have a hard time believing this and that's ok but for us, this is very real.

Over the weekend we had a soccer game in Mission, Greg was out of town and I was on deck!   I thought it would be fun to make the day of it if we were heading out that far. Our last stop before heading home was Golden Ears Regional Park.  It was a well spent few hours, exploring the woods and hitting up the lake (which was FREEZING!) and by 5 pm we were home and prepping for a fresh week of school.  

later that night, I sat down to edit my images from the day we had horsing around and as I was scrolling through some images of Amara on top of a HUGE dead old growth tree  I stopped and thought, well that looks odd?? Really odd?  There were what appeared to be highlight bursts in her hair and on her arm. It was so dramatic I thought I must have batch edited them by accident and used a highlight brush or something.  when I looked a little further that would not be the case. The images were unedited and straight out of the camera. Untouched and shot as is.

I got shivers, like grow the hair back on my leg kind of shivers.  There is NO explanation of how these "orbs" would be formed and I mean that. There was no catch light, no reflective surfaces as I was in the tree stumptaking the photos.  My camera doesn't even have a flash and these images are right out of the camera.

The images were taken within seconds of one another. I never saw any light reflecting in my lens. I'm dumbfounded on how these would have been formed from "real life".

Here's the thing, if you've followed any of my past posts your aware that Amara lost her best friend Sophie to meningitis in kindergarten. This rocked her family, us and our community really hard. We miss her every day.

Being a believer in "signs", we've had quite a few butterfly and rays of light encounters since her passing (read about it here) and recently DIMES (finding them that is in strange places). Dimes seam to be what she gives to her own family all the time as a sign.

These "orbs" have no explanation that makes sence, other than I truly believe she is near us. She is with us. She hears us  and that gives us a huge sense of comfort. 

#sophie

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Journal Entry No.26 | Klutch Photography | Vancouver family photographer

Ah, Sports day, the only time kids know whether their a winner or a loser! My kids are pretty competitive as you can see by their reactions (Che' was on the blue team and Amara was yellow!)

Team yellow took the bragging rights overall but Blue still had a few winning moments.

#sportsday

#candid

#activekids