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Our daycare does this and we allowed it. They post their pictures on Facebook, but it's always just a bunch of kids and they aren't labeled, so I guess I don't feel OVERLY concerned about it. Maybe I'm naive though...

I only did for my son's camp. We did not do it for daycare, but they were not on social media.

I don't think I'd mind

Nope. Never.

My daycare doesn't post pictures anywhere, but at the public school that I work in, it's such a PITA if a kid doesn't have their photo release signed. Then they don't get to be in the yearbook, can't be in any club or award photos (sports teams, chess club, student of the month, etc), don't get to be in the end-of-the-year slideshow. The kiddos tend to get upset about not seeing themselves anywhere--it's as if they didn't exist at our school. sad face.

Our school doesn't do FB, twitter, IG, or anything else so I think the parents are probably a little overly concerned. Luckily, it's only 1-2 students a year.

I dont think its a big deal. Its a big pain when parents dont sign from a management perspective (though i fully support a parents right to decline) so unless i had a really good reason (custody, legal stuff etc.) i would sign.

@MamaMoose: Maybe this is a stupid question, but why would a daycare need an Instagram account? I guess I can understand a Facebook account, but I don't really understand having an Instagram account unless it were private and only parents could follow.

I don't think I would be comfortable with caregivers posting pictures of my kid. A family friend's nanny always posts pics of the kids on her personal Facebook and tags the parents...I find that a little strange as a nanny and a parent.

@bookwormmama: additional marketing from their perspective I guess

Yes, Wagon Jr. has been featured in marketing materials for Tea Collection, Uppa Baby, and a picture was run in our local paper for our daycare (the director retired after 20 years) and it was actually a picture that Wagon Sr. had taken and sent to the daycare. We don't mind our kids' pictures being used as long as we've been asked permission (we signed releases for the two companies and gave permission to the daycare and the paper), and the organization won't resell the picture.

We've never gotten any kind of compensation for the pictures... but we did receive a friends and family discount at Uppa Baby

@T.H.O.U.: that totally reminded me, I follow a pseudo-celebrity on Instagram (Emily Maynard from The Bachelor/Bachelorette) and she has TONS of followers. She had posted a picture with her daughter, and had the location tagger on and it showed the school's name and address...!! There were like 1,000 comments immediately, warning Emily to take down the picture because now everyone would know where her daughter's school was. Yikes!!!

I signed one for our daycare but when we went to visit the Easter bunny for the first time when he was 4 months, I was asked if they could use his picture for training purposes as well as other media things. I have to said, it is an amazing picture but I said a big fat no to that one.