How can I get my child to sit still for family photos?

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Hi just wanted to ask a weird question lol but are there any tricks to get kids to sit nicely for holiday pictures? My daughter will be 2 in November and for her pictures with Santa she started screaming bloody murder as soon as she was put in his lap :joy: her first Christmas she was 3 months old so she didn’t cry bc she didn’t really know what was going on with her first pic with Santa. She’s not a shy baby, we take her everywhere from restaurants to grocery stores so she’s always around strangers and my family see her at LEAST twice a week, she’s a very social baby! I want to get Easter pictures done but I don’t want to if she’s gonna be screaming in every pic lol

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Help a mama out and respond anonymously on our forum. How can I get my child to sit still for family photos?p

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Maybe she’s scared of him… I know I introduced my baby to Ms Rachel on YouTube… They have a Christmas episode… Its shows Santa and some other Christmas characters… When we went to town the other day, there was a 6ft tall Santa… She was not scared at all and I even let her get close so she could touch his coat…

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Well, remember that your lil babe has no idea who that the big guy is. Show her. Show her a Christmas movie, you yourself get excited when it shows Santa so she knows she too can be excited. She will imitate what you do.

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My daughter always hated santa. And the Easter bunny.

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Personally, If she would be more ok with being held, I would just hold her. I didn’t let my baby suffer for pics. Not that important to me. Plenty of other pics of her.

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Someone behind photographer dancing and smiling