Document Your Baby’s First Year of Life With 1 Second Every Day
Yes, it’s a cliché to exclaim that children “grow up so fast!” But it has become a cliché because it is true. Especially when it comes to babies, the developmental changes that occur from birth to one year old are staggering and can seem miraculous in the blink of an eye, even if you’ve just spent a whole year staring at them.
Log into the 1 Second Everyday app. With this app, users shoot one second of video every day for a year to create a six minute and five second video (or six minutes and six seconds this year, since 2020 is a leap year).
Capture your baby’s daily second in the same spot in his crib, or eating spaghetti or cooing in his lounger. Capture any moment you love, from the big (first steps!) To the trivial (oh, another dream). From second to second you will see the same child, but, say, in half a minute you will cover a whole month of his new life. There are also places where you can write a small signature and jot down your day a little.
Admittedly, doing this 365 days in a row might seem like overkill and it takes a little creativity to record a video that doesn’t. But this is where magic can happen, in those small moments that at that time did not seem like something special.
Of course, this app is not exclusively intended for newborns. 1 second Everyday can capture any part of life, whether your goal is to track a child’s growth or shared family memories: “Hey, this is the night we went to the basketball game” or “Remember that awful egg casserole that was still runny after an hour in the oven? »I’m sure there is an incredible video of a mom’s belly growing during pregnancy and another baby in high school.
Cesar Kuriyama, the creator of the app, gave a Ted Talk in March 2012 about why the app is so important. He said:
There are all these things that I have done in my life that I cannot remember unless someone brings them up and I think, “Oh yes, this is what I did.” … As days, weeks and months go by, time just starts to merge and merge with each other, and I hated it. And visualization is a way to awaken memory.
Kuriyama has been recording one second of his daily life since he was 30. Now 36, he has a video that documents everything in his thirties. He plans to do this for the rest of his life.
The app is free, although there is a pro version that allows for additional features such as longer video clips, background music, and unlimited storage and projects. But honestly, the free is enough to prove that these kids are really growing up too fast.