Recording voices of youth

An old friend listening to my then 5-year-old son asked me to not miss how boys that age talk. Not really what they say. He meant more the way they say it. The pitch of the voice. The way that he forms words and then words into sentences. My son will soon be seven. I have taken to recording him of all places, in the shower. I’m not in there with him. He gets into the shower and I place the Zoom H2 portable recorder on the window sill where he can’t see it, or hear me setting it up. I walk away and return before he finishes. I know he is finished when he stops talking. That’s right. The boy talks non-stop in the shower.

I started recorded him last night. Actually, as I type this, he is singing the 12 days of Christmas for my wife while she is washing the dishes. That’s my job, but I’m not feeling well. Hey, I’m going to set up the Zoom H2 right now and see what I can capture.