It’s something that parents frequently tell you. ‘I long to stop time and preserve my children’s youth forever.’

As parents, we long for a more carefree period in our kids’ lives. It is imperative for parents to acknowledge that their offspring will grow up and become adults.

One Dutch father made a special choice to illustrate his daughter’s growth. Frans Hofmeester,

a Dutch filmmaker, had the brilliant idea to take a picture of his daughter every week of her life, starting when she was a newborn and ending when she turned 20.

The end products are just amazing. It’s amazing to see how this young woman has changed over the past 20 years—from a helpless newborn to a confident adult.

Frans Hofmeester has a creative imagination, as evidenced by this original method of preserving a simpler time, when his daughter was a newborn. This project must have required a great deal of endurance.

For a long time, parents have been worried that their kids are growing up too fast. Frans Hofmeester came up with a special and elegant technique to look back on the past that would always evoke happy recollections.