A moment 'me too' shut the other person down.
Who listens to you best? Write about them.
Everyone gets the same subject. What differs is the follow-up: one question for children, two for teens, three for adults. Only the children's wording is simplified.
Explaining is what stalls you. Put down what you saw and what you heard instead.
Find the sentence you are least sure about. What you actually meant is usually hiding there.
Skip it and start at the second. The opening writes itself once the rest exists.
Instead of 'I was sad', write what your body did.
Write the visible, not the felt, and the reader stands there with you.
Open with a question and the reader keeps going to find the answer.