To put a photo of DS in Christmas cards?

[JasonPollack]

Last year I combined Christmas and 'thanks for the babygift' cards as DS was born in late November. I included a photo of DS since I don't use social media and older relatives won't have WhatsApp photos. Also I like printed out photos. I thought it would be nice this year to do the same & include a photo. Cards just go to very close friends and family. DH doesn't want to though and doesn't think anyone would want a photo. Would you think it was strange to receive one? Not like a professional pic, just a nice photo normal sized.

I used to when DS was younger, we’ve never used social media and have moved a lot so family, Godparents and friends didn’t often see our DS and I love receiving photos of children. Not everyone uses social media.

A couple of years ago we had a family portrait done (including my elderly parents & actually sent that to a very few select relatives ).

Also, I think a photo is fine but I often wonder about people who send out calendars, mouse mats, key rings, etc with their kids pictures on them. surely no one, not even grandparents, want all that.

I don't particularly like getting photo cards. Not that I dislike, but I don't know where to put them, don't really want to display and then feel bad for binning after a week or so.
But, I'm youngish and use SM to see pics of relative's kids. For elderly perhaps they would appreciate.

blackcatsleeping that's more like it!
bertrandRussell I thought you were having a moan at getting a photo Christmas card from a royal or two! (Entirely justified)

Really surprised and bit saddened by how many of you would not like a Xmas card with a pic of your friends kids in it, I’d love it personally and would keep it, and elderly relations for sure! The only time I wouldn’t would do if would be if someone was having fertility issues then I’d see it as insensitive and thats also why I don’t plaster pics all over social media

Honestly, I hate them.

I'm probably what most of you would describe as "an elderly relative" and I still say no!

Please dont. As someone on the receiving end of this every year I can tell you the photo goes in the bin.

Elderly relatives maybe though

I love receiving photos of children, and several people send them in Christmas cards. It's a lovely idea.

Close family (parents, grandparents, Godparents) might well welcome a picture, but I'd say no to sending one to friends generally.

This

For close family only - not for friends.

As long as you dress him up as Santa, it's fine.

If you got a photo of someone else’s child in a Christmas card, what would you do with it OP? For me I would look at it, think “oh, they’ve grown a lot haven’t they”, then bin it. However much I like the friend or their child, I wouldn’t put the picture up in my house, so feels a bit of a waste to me.

Obv different for grandparents/ very close relatives

God,people are so odd. Why on earth wouldn't you like a snap of a friend's baby

See I think the opposite. Why on earth would I want a photo of a friends child?

I wouldn't appreciate getting one so it's a no from me. Last year was fine as it was also a thank you card.

We always include a photo at Christmas. We don't use photos of kids on social media. It's a great idea.

I think cards are just clutter and junk and after xmas it would go straight in the bin. I would feel really bad to throw away a photo of your child. So it's a no from me. Do people collect years worth of cards?

I do think they seemquite naff. I get one from a friend who is totally obsessed with her girl, so she arranges for a photo shoot every year and pays for professional printing so get the best photo of the girl in a bit card, the girl can be either washing laundry as a Victorian kid or walking around a cemetery, but I have also got one where mum and girl were dressed as Snow White and dad as the prince.. I absolutely hate them.

On the other hand, I know another couple who every year they choose the most fun photo they have of themselves with their kids and stick it on a card for Christmas, they are quite natural and bring a little update on what they have been up to during the year. I wait for those, I absolutely love to hear from them that way.

We have friends who always include a photo of their child in the xmas card they send us
I bin it (and then feel a bit guilty)

Yeah we always laugh when these turn up. Sorry

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I would really dislike it, would roll my eyes and would judge

Nice reaction to a picture of a friend or family's 1 year of baby

I toss all cards in January regardless if there are pictures or not. So I don't personally mind.

I do have some photographs of babies in my album that I have no idea who they are!

I would like it, but I'd prefer a family picture. I have cousins who do this every year, and it's so nice to see them (and I always marvel and how amazingly beautiful she is - my cousin, not her children, though they're pretty; she's now in her fifties and looks 35 at most!).

It's a nice way to mark the passing years. I have many first cousins, some are now grandparents!, and I have albums full of photos of growing families who live all over the world. It helps me feel a little closer to them.

I put photos in for older family (who aren't on SM) unless I'm already giving them a framed photo as a present.

It's pretty standard fair in the US where we have family so we were getting theirs for many years before we joined in

It's very common in the US for people to have Christmas cards printed with a family photo on the front. I think it's lovely to see how the kids are growing. We did it too when ours were little. Not so much now with one in uni and the other going next year.