09/03/2026
A CHANGE TO MY BUSINESS PAGE — AND A LINE I WILL NOT CROSS
I want to address something that has been weighing heavily on me over the last several days.
Recent federal court proceedings have brought renewed attention to a deeply disturbing gap in our laws surrounding AI-generated sexual imagery involving minors. A recent federal appeals court ruling held that, under current First Amendment precedent, the federal government cannot criminalize the private possession of certain entirely AI-generated images that do not depict real children.
The fact that technology has advanced to the point where realistic sexualized images of children can be created—and our laws are struggling to keep pace—is deeply unsettling to me.
This isn’t about politics or debating constitutional law. For me, it comes down to one thing:
Protecting children.
Because of that, I have spent the last several days going through my business page and removing photographs of children.
Effective immediately, I will not photograph or post identifiable images of ANY child under the age of 18 on my business page.
That applies whether they’re the focus of the photograph, in the background, at an event, or whether I have parental permission.
This is not negotiable.
There has always been a reason I ask before photographing children at events, even when they’re simply in the background. There’s a reason I ask before photographing your children, and there’s a reason I’ve always asked before posting them.
I respected their privacy then.
I’m simply taking that protection a step further now.
I realize some of the older photographs have been on my page for quite some time. Some of those babies aren’t babies anymore. But that doesn’t change how I feel about protecting them. With how easily images can now be copied, altered, manipulated, and redistributed, I cannot in good conscience continue contributing—even indirectly—to an environment where something as innocent as a child’s photograph could potentially be misused.
As a career nanny, caring for children was literally my life for years. I may not have children of my own, but I have loved and cared for enough of my clients’ children that I have always felt more like an aunt than a nanny.
Those babies grew up. Some are teenagers now. Some are becoming adults. But the fact that they’re older doesn’t mean I care about them any less, and it certainly doesn’t mean I take the trust their families placed in me any less seriously.
So yes, I removed the pictures.
Not because I suddenly stopped appreciating those memories, but because protecting the children in them matters more to me than keeping content on a business page.
I understand that some people may disagree with this decision, and I understand that it may potentially cost me business. Respectfully, if protecting children is something that creates a problem, then I probably wouldn’t have wanted that business in the first place.
I would rather be overly cautious than ever regret making a different choice.
The internet has changed. Technology has changed. What can be done with an innocent photograph has changed.
So the way we protect our kids has to change, too.
Your babies may not be babies anymore, but protecting them is something I will continue to do.
Protect our kids.
Plain and simple.
