Letters to you, and what I'm learning

“What do you want them to know about how much they are loved — in as specific a way as you can manage?”

Why this question

Not in the abstract. In the detail. The particular things you notice, and love, and will always love.

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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“What did your own parents get right — and what are you deliberately doing differently?”

“What part of your own childhood comes up in how you parent?”