To have baby photos up when my children are 12 and 10?

[PurpleQueenie]

When my kids were born, I scrimped and saved to have some professional pictures taken. I know not everyone likes the newborn photos, but I really cherish them.

Anyway, I have a photo wall thing of about 6 pictures, that were taken of my youngest and some have my eldest in them too. Then I have two bigger pictures of my eldest. I haven’t put them up in our new house. It’s not a big house, so the only place they could go is the living room. The 6 pictures are a set so won’t work if I use only a couple, as they’ll look odd.

I now have bare walls, and don’t know if it’s weird to still have these up now my children are older? What do you think?

YABU - don’t put them up, the kids are too old to still have them.

YANBU - put them up. It doesn’t matter how old the kids are.

It’s your house. If you love the photos and want them up, have them. Not odd at all

Eh? My DD is 23 and i still have her baby photos up. Don't be fooled by my user name - carefully curated homes are naff and soulless. Put up the photos you love, and display the decorations and ornaments that mean something to you and make you happy.

Have them up if you want them up! It's your house, decorate it in a way that makes YOU happy.

I think that if you are an adult you can have whatever you like on your walls, funny thing to need internet approval for imo

My photos will stay up in my house till I die

It’s your house so do whatever you like . I’ve got a professional photo of our eldest on the wall in our bedroom from when he was a baby and a professional pencil drawing of our younger one from when she was about 3 , personally I wouldn’t put them in the lounge .

My aunt lives in my (now deceased) grandma's house theres still a picture of me on her mantlepiece playing nude in the garden at maybe 2.

Im significantly over 12.

Additionally, I bought my current home after 3 of my grandparents died, but I have their photos on my wall

Love is love. Hang them with pride

If it embarrasses your kids then you could put them up in your bedroom? That's the only reason I can see to not have them up on display if you like them!

The photos of my parents holding my children will never be put away. With both parents now dead there won’t be any more photos. They are very special.

I've got loads up and my "babies" are 15 and 17. Surely that's the point of photos, to have pictures of people at different points in their life? If I want to see what they look like now I'd just look at them across the dinner table!

Do you have more recent photos of your DC? I don’t. Even if I did I’d display them alongside the cherished photos. I don’t put them on the wall though. They are in frames on bookcases. DS1 (24) jokes he peaked age 3 and that’s why I still display it.

Oh keep them up, I've got pictures from aged 1 to about 14 & my son is 18 now. However he had his new girlfriend round recently & he hid some of these pictures so she couldn't see them so we may need to update them or remove some to make him feel happier 😉

I'm nearly 40, my parents have moved twice since I was born and they still have my baby photos on the walls

As long as your kids wouldn’t be embarrassed if their mates came round (bare bums or cutesy props) then go for it.

My sister and I are our in our 50s. Except in my parents' house, where we are each three months old, topless, lounging on sheepskin rugs, and bigger than life-size on the sitting room wall.

Just saying I’m 34 and my parents still have a lovely professional photo of me hanging on their wall. There are also much more up to date ones including grandchildren but I don’t think they’ll ever take it down now.

I've got a lovely set of school photos up from the year my oldest 3 were all at primary school at the same time.

It happened to be one of those rare years when the photographer actually caught the kids at good angles, looking neat and smiling nicely 😊

The eldest of the 3 is now 30 😀

Ask your DC what they think. If they're unhappy or embarrassed then don't put the photos up. If they do not mind then go ahead. Embarrassing your children, especially in front of their friends is never acceptable, it is something I feel very strongly about.

My DM had baby photos of my brother and me until we were well into our 50s.They were on her dressing table though so the only person apart from us who saw them was the cleaner.

30 and 33 dc. Still got up pictures of them. Family down the years type of thing.

I have baby photos of my parents on my walls 😂(They are now in their late 70s)

At 12 & 10, your kids are coming up towards the peak social awkwardness, wanting to be cool, fit in, and "omg parents are sooo embarrassing" phase, plus generally feeling out of place and uncomfortable in their changing bodies and transitioning from child to teen to adult, so personally, I'd think it's kind to leave them down until they're in their 20s, to avoid them feeling embarrassed when their mates come over.

It's not unreasonable to have them up, but they might well find it excruciating.

Could you put them up in your bedroom if you wanted them visible for you?

Definitely have them up. My sister and I are mid thirties and my parents still have our baby pictures up.

I've put the baby photos upstairs mostly. I have a couple which I love downstairs though. The dc have never asked me to take them down; if they did, then I'd consider it and discuss with them.

I'm in my 30s, moved out 13 years ago, am married with kids of my own, and there are still baby photos of me up on my parents' walls. I love it, my parents love it, just put them up if they make you smile!

Mine are 21 and 19 and I have photos up of them at all ages.