Daily Year of Yes – 269

When the kids were young, I used to tickle them during family photos to get some genuine laughs.

As they got bigger and stronger, they got better at stopping me so I had to devise a better strategy to ensure we didn’t end up with a bunch of fake smiles.

We start our sessions with smiles, and then do a bunch of faces (sad face, angry face, shocked face, etc.) And then we start to fake laugh. I told the kids that the camera can’t tell when you’re fake laughing so we fake it.

And the camera can’t tell.

But here’s the best part: a few seconds into the fake laughing we start laughing for real. We can’t help it. The whole thing feels so absurd that we start laughing and laughing and laughing.

And the camera captures those too.

Sometimes faking it till you make it is the best strategy after all.

Yes to laughter.

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