“What parts of your family's background — places, languages, food, faith — live in your home?”

Why this question

Where the family is from, near or far. What reaches your child's daily life: the dishes, the words, the ways of doing things.

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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