I’ve started wiretapping my kid because he hates photos

I think of the Radiolab story as a cautionary tail, if you try to capture all the special moments, you'll end up preventing them from happening in the first place. Many (most?) people only feel comfortable being themselves when a permanent record isn't being kept. By trying to always photograph your kid, they may start to feel like they have to put up a facade all the time. I know I certainly would.

My family hardly has any, the only pictures I have of my younger self is a rare vacation and grade school pictures. Social media and smart phone advancements have really changed the "special" effect a photograph use to have.

But more importantly I don't have any audio of my childhood and that is something I would love to hear now.

I'm probably too socially awkward to understand this obsession with documenting ones offspring in minute detail. but then I have zero interest in having kids.

In a way I can ask "is it ok if I record you for the past 5 minutes?"