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Because they are too busy to read the directions.

It's impressive that you only got 3 families who messed up!

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It takes seconds to read a sentence that includes “maximum  4 pictures.” They’re not too busy to do that. They’re too self-important.[/quote]

Oh honey. You may have a small life with nothing happening and time to devote to reading every last word, or you may have a preternatural superhuman focus, but believe me, it happens to nearly every parent at some point.

If you're checking emails on your phone while walking to pick up your kid, pushing the stroller and preventing the toddler from trailing his snack in every puddle and wondering whether you need to pop into the grocery store on the way home and composing a grocery list in your head, all you see on the small screen is "send blah-blah photos", and all of sudden your eye has read 30 instead of 3-4. Or you're scrolling through hundreds of emails at lunchtime (beg pardon, Zoom meeting with blow-hard for what passes as lunchtime, camera artistically avoiding the sloppy fast food you ordered because you're frenzied at work), trying to remember every directive for every last stupid email from the three schools plus one preschool your children go to, and you file away 40 instead of 3-4 photos, and don't check again because the day just gets crazier from there.

This is the life of many a parent I know. 
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I would not include your child at all in the presentation.  You can't follow simple requests - you are out.  We are busy too. Good lord.  It's really really not hard. 
You are probably way to busy to notice the omission too.  Even better.  [/quote]

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