“What was losing the first tooth like?”

Why this question

Where it happened, the wobbling weeks beforehand, the going rate from the tooth fairy in your house.

Capturing it in voice

• ·Don't script it. The ums, the tangents, the half-finished sentences — that's what their voice actually sounds like right now.
• ·Thirty seconds is plenty. A short answer you actually record beats a long one you keep meaning to.
• ·Say the date and their age out loud at the start. In ten years that one detail will do half the work.

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