Well what are the 1000 words this picture would hypothetically be replaced with?
I'm the first to admit there is a good chance those words wouldn't begin with "The 2009 Mother of the Year Award goes to Rosemary Harris."
To me, however, it says what a responsible young girl slapping on the sunscreen before heading out in the harsh Australian sun. Clearly, she has a very responsible mother to have taught the girl that with the mercury rising in the thermometers, it is essential to apply the 30+. She has applied it so very liberally and covered near to the entire area of the face which risks the most potential sun exposure. Again, only an extremely responsible mother would have taught her this.
To others, they may question why the child was a) in the bathroom or b) left alone long enough to apply the 'sunscreen' so carefully all over her face. To answer "a", I place the blame fair and squarely upon the shoulders of the three-and-a-half-year-old making a hasty trip to the "loo" after insisting on three bowls of All-Bran for breakfast in the attempt to grow strong....and in his haste leaving the door, which is usually shut specifically to prevent and mischievous sister mishaps, wide open. I choose not to waste too many more of my 1000 words dwelling on such trivial matters starting with "why".
Sure, the sunscreen was actually toothpaste. But is was children's toothpaste and she did get a tiny bit on her teeth. This picture also says "I am Delilah. I am independent. I require no assistance. What is your issue? I am Delilah. I will do what I want and what clearly makes a lot of sense in my world. Your concern or horror is severely misplaced.”
With the obvious “Chhhhhhesssse” coming from her mouth through her profound lisp, this photo may also suggest the young lady, exactly a week off 16 months, may actually be quite proud of her effort in applying toothpaste to the face and is not shy about being photographed in the act, so much so that she will quite willingly, without any prompting, yell “chhhhheeeeese” to ensure you get her best side.
I also hope that a prominent part of the 1000 words hypothetically replacing this photograph would include a very detailed description of how healthy, clean and strong her teeth actually are, something only seen in children of very responsible mothers I am sure.
Look closely and you may also take note that getting toothpaste out of your eyelashes probably seemed like an easier task during the exhilarating and hasty application of the toothpaste than it did after the fact when your very responsible mother was attacking you with a face washer in the bath.
What this picture also screams is here is a young girl - and heaven knows what young girls have to deal with in today's world, even if you are only a week off 16 months – who has her priorities straight. Obviously she doesn't care excessively (or at all) for perfect dainty hair all done up in bows and ribbons or designer outfits for that matter, but she does care a lot about healthy teeth and being sunsmart or something along those lines, possibly blurred with the thrill of being caught and being downright naughty, but we won't delve too far into that. She was, after all, simply trying to save her very busy and responsible mother the bother one of the many jobs she has to do in her day.
Now I am not seriously going to bore you with the full 1000 words. I have made it to 500, I'll let you add the other half as clearly I think we have all come to the conclusion that this picture simply says “responsible parenting”. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if the Government put this on the front of their next lot of helpful brochures on how to bring up children the right way.
Yep, responsible parenting. Let's just say I can laugh about it now and I am somewhat glad it was toothpaste mistaken as sunscreen and not suncreen mistaken as toothpaste.
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