portraits of your older kiddos..

I just had a thought as I was going through these photos and thinking how much I loved photographing this age. My thought was "wow, I never get kids this age. It's always babies and kids up to about 5 or 6 yrs. " As I look through the websites of photographers I admire I don't see many pictures at this age. Why is that? Why aren't parents getting portraits done of their pre-teens? At this age they are so full of personality. (well maybe to full of a personality that parents don't want to document.. they just want it over!) Anyhoo..I was just thinking about that and would like to say I LOVE to capture this age. So parents.. don't forget that these times are so worth documenting and preserving this time in their lives just as much as the toddler years are.
Know anyone with tweens... send them my way!