“What traditions from your own childhood have you passed on — and what have you deliberately changed?”

Why this question

What you kept. What you let go. What you wanted to do differently for them.

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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