Dad shares the trick to getting a good photo. Hint: it’s just one word
Oct. 11, 2022, 3:24 PM EDT / Source: TODAY
If your kid looks constipated in pictures, Pennsylvania dad Adam Perry has a hilarious solution.
Last month, Perry shared two side-by-side photos of his 5-year-old son. In the left image, the preschooler wears a pained-looking smile similar to the grimacing face emoji, but in the right snap, he is ready for catalog work. His smile is relaxed and genuine.
“My son when I tell him to smile vs when I yell out ‘poop!’ Perry, 38, wrote on Twitter. The tweet racked up nearly 300,000 likes and 13,000 retweets. He also received more than a thousand comments.
“Congrats! You’ve revealed the secret and unlocked the next level of parenting,” one person replied.
Added another, “This is why I volunteered at my kid’s school for picture day when they were little. If I’m paying $50 for those things, I want a good picture. Our code word was ‘fart’ though. Same reaction."
One person joked that "poop jokes" are the only way to get family photoshoots accomplished.
Perry, a children’s book author, said that he and his wife Andrea, discovered early on that the only way to get a decent shot of their little boy is to make him laugh.
Poop was the obvious choice.
