Wierd thing that always happens in WDW

[#1 Pocahontas]

We always have the strangest thing happen to us at least once every trip. People always want to take pictures of our kids. Isn't that weird??? I mean of course I think my kids are gorgeous but I just figured I was biased LOL

We have had a few groups of Asian tourists fuss over both my children when they were babies and they often ask if they can take a picture of them. Some of them actually posed around them.

On our last trip it was a group from Canada. They spoke mostly french so I have no idea most of what they were saying but they made such a fuss over my youngest dd, gave her a gift and asked if they could take a picture with her.

Isn't that strange?? Does that happen to anyone else?

 

[SplashMountainMama]

Do you dress your kids up in a special way when you go, like in a costume so they would stand out as looking particularly cute? If so, I can understand people commenting.Otherwise, I'd have to say yes that does sound a little weird. I can't remember ever really taking note of anyone else's kids so much that I'd feel the need to have their picture. I'm not sure I'd be comfortable letting a bunch of strangers take random pictures with my child for no apparent reason. It's a little creepy IMO.

 

[SharpMomOfTwo]

OMG - I thought I was alone! Same thing happens to us all the time, no matter if were in the city (NYC), at a mall, or out to dinner. Sometimes its ok, people just stop us, say how pretty they are, and let us go, but then you get the people that wont let you go. Its like, all I want to do is shop people, not stand here and listen to you go on about my little ones for 20 minutes! I gave birth to them, I know how precious they are! And its not just single people, its people with their own kids too, so then I have to stand there and make a fuss over their kids so I don't look like a snob or something! What really bothers me is when they try to touch them - are people nuts!? Once I was on the boardwalk in Ocean Grove, NJ and I could see this lady staring at DD who was about 9 months at the time as I was walking towards her. I saw that she was going to walk over, so I tried to move away from her, but she literally dove at my stroller, grabbing DDs arm to stop me from walking! It was the 3rd person on the boardwalk to touch her on that walk, so I was already flustered with it all. I don't remember exactly what I said, but I know there were a few expletives in there! Walking back to the car I was almost in tears, and by the time I called DH at work I was hysterical.
I guess you should just let it be, as long as the people aren't touching the children, and you don't get that "wierdo vibe" off of them.

 

[SaraMc]

There is a whole bunch of 14 year old Brazillian girls who have photo's of my son on the bus going to Epcot.
We were going from POP to Epcot last year with DS who was 6 months old at the time. A whole tour of girls got on the bus and my son being the flirt that he is was flirting with the girls. Well they LOVED him.. they asked if they could take his photo and what his name was. As soon as we said it, they cooed and said his name.
About 4 more times that day at Epcot we saw them and they would keep saying hello to DS.

 

[TexasTodds]

I know what you mean...I have 2 red-headed children, and people are always fascinated by their hair, and wanting to touch it. It is especially bad with dd who is 3 1/2. Of course, the fact that she is very outgoing for her age doesn't help anything.

The only time I have been "weirded out" by anyone's behavior was with my next door neighbor (a middle-aged Asian couple with a teen-age son, and seem very nice for the most part). One day I saw him taking pictures of my daughter through our wrought-iron fence. I do understand that red-hair is really unique to them, but to me, that was a little over the top. I'm just glad that I have a gate across my driveway for extra peace of mind when the kids are playing outside. I don't tend to be a paranoid person, but I am very leery of adults who express too much interest in my children. The worst part is that you can warn them to not bother the neighbor, but can't tell them WHY you are really telling them to be careful so that they don't tell him "my mommy said you are someone to be afraid of".

 

[tina_la]

a nice older couple were talking to my DH and DD on spalsh mountain. We later ran into them at the Crystal Palace and they asked if I would mind if they took DD's picture. The lady posed with her and then they left. They laughed and joked on the ride with my DH and DD and I guess they might have just wanted a face to go along with their Disney story when they got home.

 

[tina_la]

a nice older couple were talking to my DH and DD on spalsh mountain. We later ran into them at the Crystal Palace and they asked if I would mind if they took DD's picture. The lady posed with her and then they left. They laughed and joked on the ride with my DH and DD and I guess they might have just wanted a face to go along with their Disney story when they got home.

 

[Melissa_E]

This happens to Katie often. I think it is because she is blond and blue eyed. Mainly we get asked by foreign tourists, mainly Eastern (Japanese, Korean, etc..).

 

[smylie1]

We get compliments on our 2 sons behavior all the time, especially in restaurants. Some people say it in a way that they can't believe their evening wasn't ruined by there being children in the place. I am thrilled by it, but that's alot different from people wanting to take pics and touch them. I would be flattered, but very cautious.

 

[Tinka_Belle]

I always get compliments on how pretty DD is. Especially when she is dressed up. I have only one person ask to take her picture. It was Halloween 2003. She was dressed like a fairy and the lady asked if it was ok to take her picture. She said that she just had to have a pic to show her daughter how cute DD was. I was like ok.

 

[bumbershoot]

The red hair draws people like a magnet. No pictures, but lots of comments, speculation about whether it will change. And if DH is around there's the added "fun" of seeing that they are wondering if DS is DH's. One woman when DS was an infant told DH that "it looks as though you STOLE that child", while he was standing outside the women's dressing room at Sears, holding diaper bag, purse, babysling, and baby. Sigh.

Of course I do tend to prolong the conversation with talk of genetics, b/c DS is a quarter Korean. Amber eyes, one of which looks like the one "Korean" eye DH has (one eye and eyelid looks Asian, the other eye is differently shaped and the lid has a fold), red hair, and he gets tan.

Like a magnet....

 

[mom2meiko]

my baby girl is 6 months and we are still adjusting to strange people touching her. we've had 2 really upsetting/bizarre instances. one - a family friend - decided it was ok to stick her finger in my daughters mouth when she was crying. we had a pacifier for her but she felt the need to show that her finger worked just as well. i'm somewhat neurotic when it comes to germs and cleanliness so needless to say, i wasn't happy. (she's not known for being the cleanest person on earth either.)

the other really strange one was when my dh took dd to lowe's on an errand. while he was waiting for paint to be mixed a woman came up and started talking to him about dd. then she asked if he would take her out of her carrier so she could hold her! dh very wisely said "no - i think my wife would kill me."

what is up with people???

 

[MiniGirl]

This used to happen with my oldest dd. When she was a baby and toddler, people would always ask to hold her or give her little gifts or want to take pics of her.

It never happened with my youngest when she was smaller. Now, though, it is my youngest that gets all the attention. Of course, it could be that not as many people saw my youngest. I carried her in a sling earlier and more often than I did my oldest, and nobody was brave enough to reach their hand in there to move the fabric out of the way just to get a look at the baby. No, that was't it. I love my baby, but truth is she just wasn't a pretty baby, and my oldest could've been a Gerber baby. Now, though, my youngest is stunning, and people now comment ALL the time. Of course, I still think my oldest is beautiful, too.

 

[bumbershoot]

I carried her in a sling earlier and more often than I did my oldest, and nobody was brave enough to reach their hand in there to move the fabric out of the way just to get a look at the baby.

LOL. I was a bridesmaid when DS was 9 weeks old, and bought a hotsling with a brocade side to "go" with the dress. At the reception, I wore him quite a bit of the time, and I had more than one person *start* to reach to touch his face, then realized where exactly their hand would be (with my monstrously large nursing chest out to there) and pull back and laugh. Slings do help most people keep their distance.

 

[_queenie_]

I know what you mean...I have 2 red-headed children, and people are always fascinated by their hair, and wanting to touch it.

I'm used to that. My DS17 is very Irish looking, w/ the red highlits and frechles, my DD3 has long, white blonde hair, and my DD13 has long, culry, golden blonde hair (she used to look just like Shirley). One time (in a restaurant near DW) when my older DD was almost 2, I noticed these two men in their mid twenties staring and pointing at her. One of them's exact quote "I don't normally look at babies, but see her over there, she's pretty hot." Now that creeped me out! I do hear similar comments about my three-year-old, but I'm at least glad they're words like "pretty" and not "hot". They've all gotten alot of attention over the years, mostly from older couples. People have asked to take a picture a couple of times, but I've denied it.

 

[#1 Pocahontas]

These stories are all so interesting, I never knew how common it was! LOL I think it's so strange. My dd's look nothing a like but both get noticed. One has unbelievably think brown hair down to her waist with blue eyes and the other has blond sometimes yellow looking hair that is so thin and short that I use Barbie combs to brush it, also with blue eyes. LOL

My dd was in an over the shoulder holder on my chest when a group of Japanese (I think that was the language they were speaking) young men and women posed around her. That felt REALLY weird. I'm not even sure they asked if they could take the picture. They were gooing over her and the next thing I knew they were posing.

 

[2Princes2Princesses]

This happens to Katie often. I think it is because she is blond and blue eyed. Mainly we get asked by foreign tourists, mainly Eastern (Japanese, Korean, etc..).

My DD4.5 as well. Last Feb at P&P, she was dressed in the Ariel bride dress with the BBB hair, it was like she was a celebrity.

 

[portia9]

My 3yo daughter gets a lot of looks and comments from people. Of course I think she is gorgeous but it seems other people agree

7 years ago we visited China. I only had 2 sons then-Joshua was 4 and had reddish blonde hair, Samuel was a chubby red haired blue eyed 1 yo. People went insane over him. A group of young girls actually came up one day and unbuckled him out of the stroller to take pics with him. Lucky I am pretty easygoing lmbo. So there are many photos of Samuel as a 1yo in China

 

[portia9]

We get compliments on our 2 sons behavior all the time, especially in restaurants.

That would be a lovely thing to hear

 

[SplashMountainMama]

We get compliments on our 2 sons behavior all the time, especially in restaurants. Some people say it in a way that they can't believe their evening wasn't ruined by there being children in the place. .

I always tell my kids that this makes me more proud than anything when we are out. I guess because it's also a nod to Dh and I that we're doing something right and as a parent you so often feel like others are judging your parenting. Not to say my kids haven't had a meltdown or 2 in public, but generally they're pretty well-behaved.

As for the picture-taking thing I still think it's a little odd for others to want to take pictures of your kids. I know people comment on how cute kids look all the time, but I guess I just don't get the picture thing.