{"id":298728,"date":"2025-11-21T06:43:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T06:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/298728\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T06:43:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T06:43:14","slug":"photographer-discovers-foolproof-way-to-get-kids-to-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/298728\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographer Discovers Foolproof Way to Get Kids To Smile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"anchor-08e370\" class=\"body-graf\">Family photographer Allison Burriss was under a lot of pressure to do a promotional shoot for her photography business. But her kids were not interested in participating.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-5e87a4\" class=\"body-graf\">&#8220;My kids were overtired, overdone. It was super late. It was about to be their bedtime,&#8221; Burriss tells TODAY.com. <\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-1a1211\" class=\"body-graf\">Burriss turned to a tried and true parenting method: bribery. <\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-405ca4\" class=\"body-graf\">&#8220;I had my husband go upstairs and get them ice cream,&#8221; she says. &#8220;We fed them ice cream just to get them to cooperate, and then it just turned into so much fun!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-0ba757\" class=\"body-graf\">That&#8217;s right \u2014 she snapped photos while her husband Zach spoon fed ice cream to their kids: Makenzie, 7, Kaiden, 4, and Cambria, 1.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/smiling-kids-icecream-kvw-251119-ee7613.jpg\" alt=\"Photographer mom shares the trick to getting kids to smile. Its in your freezer.\" height=\"480\" width=\"720\"\/>Cambria, Makenzie and Kaiden couldn&#8217;t contain their excitement about having ice cream before bedtime.Allie Bean Photography \/ Allison Burriss<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-e2b201\" class=\"body-graf\">&#8220;My youngest was 13 months at that time, and she just never had ice cream before, so it was like a novelty to her,&#8221; Burriss explains. &#8220;And then the other two were just laughing, getting scoops continuously from my husband so I could get a cool picture for my clients to see what I was offering them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-605812\" class=\"body-graf\">Burriss then posted a video of the super sweet family session<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DQFzPG3Ef2A\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> on Instagram on October 21<\/a> that racked up 700,000 views and a ton of wholesome comments:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a strategy I can get behind. \ud83d\ude02&#8221; &#8220;WORTH IT. \u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f Listen all rules go out the door for family photos.&#8221;&#8221;Diligently taking notes for our Christmas session. \ud83e\udd23&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-ee7736\" class=\"body-graf\">Then client \u2014 and friend \u2014 Lauren Sewell announced that she would be bringing ice cream to her family photo session. Burriss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DQ-jhITjYdB\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">posted a video<\/a> of that session on Nov. 13 and it has over 12 million views.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-1a4d16\" class=\"body-graf\">&#8220;Her youngest son, he never smiles like the way she wants him to smile,&#8221; Burriss explains. &#8220;He always like curls his lip under. You know how kids do that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-005c25\" class=\"body-graf\">Unsurprisingly, having ice cream immediately transformed his curled lip into a giant smile.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-3a2b96\" class=\"endmark body-graf\">Full disclosure: the 8-year-old reading over the shoulder of this reporter just said, &#8220;Mommy, can you try that ice cream trick on me?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Family photographer Allison Burriss was under a lot of pressure to do a promotional shoot for her photography&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-298728","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}