Photos of my children to send to grandparents - would you be offended

Get them re-done , if g/parents don"t see them too much might not be appreciated .

Faces are better anyway , with gorgeous beaming smiles they can show off to all their friends . Good Luck .

I think it quite likely that the granparents won't blink an eye at photos of naked small children. It is only in the last few years that everyone has got so sensitive about such things. My children used to play naked on the beach.

Have any of them got a computer? If so you could email the pictures you want to send to them. www.Wetransfer.com works for us.

thank you for this advice this is just what I needed - a view from outside
thank you for posting

Send the discs - good heavens, how could they possibly mind!? I have dozens of naked pics of my GC. We are all getting to sensitive about these things.

I am assuming the people to whom you are sending these are unlikely to put them on the internet.

Just do it - send the darn things!!

zero chance they will put them on the internet or anything like that - they will only look at them on their home computers and nothing more
just not sure what they will think of the nakedness

i have tried to change the security settings so i can delete but it wont let me - maybe someone at home might know how to do it for me and I can solve it that way

Once they have been formatted you can't add or change them so don't even bother trying.

Redblue , it is obviously something that is giving you a slight cause for concern . Hence your post . You know the people concerned better than any G/Netter so go with your gut feeling .

Send those lovely photos of your children - explain if you feel you want them to know that you couldn't edit them, but in the safe and secure setting of a protective family, why should you have to behave differently? The photos were taken in all innocence and should be perceived in that way by the grandparents.

My mum took pics of two of my kids naked in her garden (standing on stools looking over the garden fence at what the neighbours were up to). She sent them to me with the comment: "Peaches!"

Similar ages to your two.

I don't know your situation but I too would not bat an eye lid. I have photos of my GD in the bath. I think it is a shame that today such a natural photo can be deamed as inappropriate but I understand how this all has come about. Nobody has a bath with their clothes on for heavens sake.

If 'YOU' think they might be offended, ask them, simple. The fact you have to ask obviously is a tale tale sign you have serious concerns that you do not know them well enough to just know what to do. Tell them you would love to send them some photos but one is of them in the bath and obviously they have no clothes on. You will get the answer from the horses mouth and you cannot go wrong. I would hazard a guess even the call from you will be most welcomed as any contact from our children is a joy.

We are all different and you are I am sure the best person to determine their 'sensitivities', if they have any at all. One thing is for sure. If they are upset by a photo of their DGC in such a photo you will know not what to disclose when they are growing up when things can really get tricky.
Good luck.

thank you pogs - and thank you everyone. of course it depends on the relationships here and i realise only so much can be relied upon by other peoples comments.
I confess am a bit desperate not to offend my inlaws
I could send one set to my parents as they will not even register the point
However I am nervous about offending MIL and i dont want to do the wrong thing
I think I will just get some of the better ones printed and send them later in the year and make sure i dont try to multi task (i.e. get photos copied onto a disc without 100% concentrating!) with my little ones too much in the future!!

Nice to hear from you Redblue , you will take the right decision for you I am sure .

I've got a lovely one of my DGD in the bath, clutching her new stripes WELLIES,
She wouldn't be parted from them

I've photos of my sons [as a wee children] wearing nothing but a sunhat. They are natural, charming and beautiful.

redblue the response from Nonu is sound.

redblue

You sound a very nice person. It can be a tricky path to please everybody all of the time, you have sorted it out for the best I am sure.

I would just send them with a covering note to explain what happened.I frequently see my grandchildren naked but even if I didn't, photos of them in the bath certainly would not offend.I think our generation is more liberal than yours in this respect.

Hi redblue, I can't imagine grandparents being offended by seeing lovely pictures of young children in the bath. I agree with you, send the complete set to your own parents, and maybe ask them what they think. If they say send them on to the others, then do. If they think there's a chance off upsetting them, then don't.

Have you asked the children's dad what he thinks?

Just thinking.... if you do it as a 'team', you'd maybe need to worry less.

I have lovely photos of my various grandchildren in different states of undress when they were toddlers - in the bath, at the beach, in the garden.......it has never crossed my mind to find them offensive.
However, as has been said, you know the grandparents best and asking them seems to be a good idea.
I feel that anybody who finds a child's naked body offensive (particular a family member) has a problem themselves.

I have just asked my very wise daughter about this, and she said she would not send them abroad as customs open every packet here and they might think they were indecent. She also pointed out that the grandparents should be warned not to post them on a public page of the internet, as paedophiles do trawl the net looking for 'innocent' photos.

I`d send them, photos of my grandchildren with nothing on wouldn`t bother me, what`s to bother about?
But then again, the other week I was minding my 4 year old grandson at our house, and got him undressed and into his pyjamas for when his mum and dad came to pick him up, and as he took his underpants off, he laughed and said "Oh, put it away, put it away", when I asked who said that, he said "Nanny", so maybe some folk do mind?

How sad it is that this question is even being asked. It reminds me of a brand new adoptive dad telling me wistfully that he'd imagined bathing his children, but 'of course' he wouldn't be doing that with his newly placed children (both toddlers) - and his tears of delight and relief when I told him to go right ahead.
redblue I would send the CD's with a covering letter saying that one of the photo's shows the children in the bath and explain how you came to copy it - and then I would leave it to them what they decide to do with the CD. If they choose to be offended then hopefully you'll never know.