a baby is not a doll

Laura Izumikawa has a highly popular Instagram page where she posts scores of photos featuring her sleeping four-month-old daughter dressed in a wide variety of costumes.

I know I may end up sounding like a grumpy curmudgeon when I voice my thumbs-down opinion about this.

First, your child is not a doll. When you spend time thinking up ways to photograph your child to generate attention for yourself, I think you have a problem.

I also have a problem with parents who don't respect their children's own privacy and slap their pictures all over the internet where anyone in the world can see them. It's one thing to share photos of your child at a social gathering or your workplace; it's quite different to share it with perfect strangers who may want pictures of your kid for unsavory reasons.

If you must dress somebody in costumes and display it on the web, use your cat or dog. It won't care.

But don't demean your child like this.

Rant off.