Videoing Your Kid Around Others

[LetsGoDadding]

I have an active 3-year-old and am quite trigger happy with my iPhone – 8k pics in his first 8 months! 🙄

However it sometimes feels awkward if I video him at soft play or in a playground and another person's kid runs into the frame.

I usually just wrap it up and pocket my phone, and avoid it if a play area's very busy – but should I?

I don't mind if my kid's in someone else's photo or video, but obviously some parents can be sensitive.

I'm sure there are plenty of opinions on this, but wondered if there was a prevailing one!

I don’t take photos in stay & play and toddler groups. It’s almost impossible not to get someone else’s child in the photo and I’d rather not do that. I remember feeling quite pissed off when a grandparent came and snapped a photo of their DGC who had just sat next to my DD.

There's no issue with photographing or videoing when other children are visible if it's for your own personal use. The issue comes when you share with others, particularly online.
There will be lots of people who don't want their children's image shared for various reasons. I have fostered children who can't be shared for their own protection, for example. And despite explaining this to other people there is always at least one who will share a photo, sometimes with an emoji face over the child's face when you can still clearly recognise the child. People just don't have respect around it.

To add - the human brain makes memories by seeing things through the eyes. If you have 8K images from 8 months, are you ever actually looking at your child through your eyes and not through a screen? You might have all these images but you won't remember the moments and your child will only remember living under a screen.
Save the phone for special times. Spend some time actually interacting, roll around on the floor together, play together, sing, clap, be silly, just actually be involved not recording.