A child’s private drawing does not automatically need to become a public photograph.

Children make things for their own reasons, and sharing them is a decision that belongs at least partly to them. A drawing posted for an audience acquires viewers, comments and a small measure of performance, and the child learns quietly that making something is incomplete until strangers have seen it. Pride in your child is real. So is the difference between admiring something and publishing it.

Ask before you post, and make no an easy answer. Keep some of their work in the house, on the fridge or the wall, where the audience is the family. Praise the making rather than the reaction it gets.