Memory Detective: The Family Gift Everyone Gets to Open
Most holiday gifts have one person on the tag. The child gets a toy, Grandma gets a scarf, and by February nobody quite remembers who gave what. Memory Detective works differently. You buy it for a child, but the grandparent, the uncle or the dad who gets interviewed often ends up with the best part of it. And the whole family keeps the result: a book of stories that would otherwise never be written down. Here is what it is, how it works, and who it suits (and who it does not). What Memory Detective actually is Memory Detective is a digital workbook for children ages 8 to 12, done together with a grown-up. The child becomes a detective and runs 12 guided investigations with one family member they choose: a grandparent, a parent, an aunt, an uncle, a close family friend. Each investigation is a set of questions about one part of that person's life. The child asks, listens, writes the answers down and can add a photo or a drawing. At the end, the answers become t...