Anonymous wrote:Your daughter is a bold thinker! I love this idea and wish I or my kids had thought of it!!

+1 She sounds fun!

I like the Penney’s idea.

I volunteer at school picture day. It is barely organized chaos, and while the costume is fine (spring pictures were taken on St Pat’s Day last year, and there were lots of really festive outfits), I don’t think she will get the outcome she is looking for. A studio photographer will let her take various poses and odds are she will be happier with the outcome.

Have you seen school photos? Most are terrible! I highly support this kid’s artistic vision. Sure to provide a better than average photo for everyone involved.

It will be a distraction in the class photo. If my kids were in that class, I would think it was quite rude.

Dude, no. Not cute. Disruptive. Self absorbed.

I think I would maybe allow it but have her bring a change of clothes in case she changes her mind or the school says no costumes. I'm pretty sure our school has a no costumes rule as a general matter so you couldn't do it at our school.

Anonymous wrote:Too many times I told my kids they would get laughed at for some crazy choice like that and they ended up cheered on and celebrated. Just let her do it.

+1

I’ve accepted that I’m too far removed from school to even have a clue about what kids make fun of in 2023.

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Anonymous wrote:Too many times I told my kids they would get laughed at for some crazy choice like that and they ended up cheered on and celebrated. Just let her do it.

Exactly this. Adults have these issues (and pass them along to kid of course), but kids are usually pretty encouraging of each other. My DS had a friend show up for 1st grade photos with a full suit and tie on. That's not that different considering it's not something he regularly wore.

Previous poster who said go for it. My kid did this a few times in early elementary school. He was a kid who normally liked only wearing athletic clothes except for picture day. We bought a really cheap one on Amazon and it was basically a costume. He wore it to school photos and when him and his friends would play with nerf guns. A couple of them had on their cheap Amazon suits. Such great memories of that.

Do you usually buy the pictures from picture day? And do these pictures end up in a year book? If the answer to these questions is no, I wouldn't care. I like to have a nice framed picture that I update each year so I wouldn't want this displayed in my house but not everyone buys/displays them.

I wouldn't want this in the yearbook either but you do you.

Anonymous wrote:Too many times I told my kids they would get laughed at for some crazy choice like that and they ended up cheered on and celebrated. Just let her do it.

Exactly this. Adults have these issues (and pass them along to kid of course), but kids are usually pretty encouraging of each other. My DS had a friend show up for 1st grade photos with a full suit and tie on. That's not that different considering it's not something he regularly wore.

Your daughter is a bold thinker! I love this idea and wish I or my kids had thought of it!!

Too many times I told my kids they would get laughed at for some crazy choice like that and they ended up cheered on and celebrated. Just let her do it.

How about a Wonder Woman t-shirt, OP? My 7yo DD also loves Wonder Woman, and she's got several WW shirts I would let her wear if she asked for them for picture day.

Anonymous wrote:This is also going to sound insane, but those pictures wind up being used if the police ever need to post a picture, or if anything happens at school. Make it a picture that really looks like your kid.

Why would this be the case? Everyone has tons of photos readily available of their kids. It would take much longer and be more difficult for me, at least, to dig up the school pics. So I don't believe this.

This is also going to sound insane, but those pictures wind up being used if the police ever need to post a picture, or if anything happens at school. Make it a picture that really looks like your kid.