“How do they play? What does play look like at this age?”

Why this question

Alone, with others, outside, in their head. What absorbs them. The games they invented.

Capturing it in voice

• ·Say the date and their age out loud at the start. In ten years that one detail will do half the work.
• ·If a sibling wanders in mid-recording, keep going. The interruption is the memory.
• ·Answer it yourself first, then ask them the same question and keep both. Two voices, one moment.

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