Weekly - Ask parents everything - January 21, 2020

So since my daughter was born it has been a battle to get my mother to participate in photos, she always shies away from them or blocks the camera with her hand to keep her face off the pictures, getting her to participate at all for her granddaughter's first birthday photos was hell, and I have been yelled at many times for taking pictures of them together to the point where I just don't bother any more. Well today I mentioned that we are going to do family pictures one more time before her little sister makes her debut, because we don't have many of just us but a ton of our daughter by herself and I thought it'd be nice for her to have just photos of her dad, myself and her alone before her sister gets here and it becomes the 4 of us instead of just the 3 of us. Well, my mother apparently didn't like that idea, she snottily told me "maybe you should do pictures with her grandparents instead of just you guys" ummm.... OK it took everything in me not to snap at her, after the amount of time i have spent fighting to get pictures of her and her granddaughter together I was pretty livid that she had that kind of nerve, especially since she also expected us to pay for the photo shoot of her and our daughter and anyone who has had photos done knows how pricey it can be. I spend 300 on a photographer for her 1st birthday to shoot the whole thing for 5 hours, in those 5 hours you know how many usable shots she got of the 2 of them together? 2... 2 photos, that she got when my mother wasn't paying attention. Am I rude for telling my mom flat out that after the way the party went last summer that I am not going to dish out the money for photos when she has had multiple chances to get photos done with our child?

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