The Importance of Dressing Up for Picture Day

"I wasn't documenting her as she shows up at Tuesday to school. I was thinking of the picture I wanted, then conforming the way she looked to look like that picture," mother says. "It seems silly, but this message that I send when I get her all dulled up to look like something that doesn't look like she naturally looks like is telling her that the way she is as she is is not worthy of documenting."