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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 505350" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>There is a quick, easy trick that WORKS for people who talk too loud but don't realize it, or those who are not so much loud as they are projecting their voice as though speaking to an auditorium with-o a microphone. Just make a very very quiet shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh noise - they do NOT have to consciously hear it for it to work. I have used it in classes full of kids, crowded buses, with my family a TON (esp my dad and husband who both project a LOT). I know it sounds strange. You don't have to even move your lips to make the sound - just make it under your breath sort of and it will quiet an overly loud person down with-o them even knowing that they are quieting down. </p><p></p><p>If I hadn't learned that from a roomie who was an audiology major, I probably would have strangled Wiz before he turned four. Esp as he combined high pitch and LOUD.</p><p></p><p>Jody, if you can hear her music from her headphones, she needs to turn it down. She is doing damage to her ears and it WILL show in 10-20 years and it IS cumulative. My kids still get a maximum volume setting on their mp3 players, etc... - I just use a bit of nail polish at the loudest they can hear it and I cannot when sitting about 3 feet away. If it is louder than that? I take it away for 24 hrs. Period.</p><p></p><p>My bro showed significant hearing damage at 25 because he used headphones and kept the music up loud. Now? He has had to use a little gizmo my dad made to amplify noises to hear in some situations. He refuses to admit to it, but his daughter can say all sorts of stuff that he just does NOT hear if he isn't looking at her or she isn't yelling. We are heading more and more toward this as we create more things to listen to on headphones. </p><p></p><p>You will become desensitized to some of this in a few weeks, it is part of the adjustment. But you can also use your sensitivities to urge good manners like chewing with your mouth shut. My kids do this because the sounds makes me want to vomit. There have been times it actually made me vomit. House Rule is that if you do something that you know makes someone sick, you can't complain if they barf on you - and you get to do the cleanup. Of course I don't do it - well, not on purpose except once when all 3 were really really pushing the limit and I had the flu, but it made enough of an impression that all I have to do is ask what happens if you purposely make someone sick to their tummy. Lol I guess, but it just seems like natural consequences to me. It HAS led to decent table manners, though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 505350, member: 1233"] There is a quick, easy trick that WORKS for people who talk too loud but don't realize it, or those who are not so much loud as they are projecting their voice as though speaking to an auditorium with-o a microphone. Just make a very very quiet shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh noise - they do NOT have to consciously hear it for it to work. I have used it in classes full of kids, crowded buses, with my family a TON (esp my dad and husband who both project a LOT). I know it sounds strange. You don't have to even move your lips to make the sound - just make it under your breath sort of and it will quiet an overly loud person down with-o them even knowing that they are quieting down. If I hadn't learned that from a roomie who was an audiology major, I probably would have strangled Wiz before he turned four. Esp as he combined high pitch and LOUD. Jody, if you can hear her music from her headphones, she needs to turn it down. She is doing damage to her ears and it WILL show in 10-20 years and it IS cumulative. My kids still get a maximum volume setting on their mp3 players, etc... - I just use a bit of nail polish at the loudest they can hear it and I cannot when sitting about 3 feet away. If it is louder than that? I take it away for 24 hrs. Period. My bro showed significant hearing damage at 25 because he used headphones and kept the music up loud. Now? He has had to use a little gizmo my dad made to amplify noises to hear in some situations. He refuses to admit to it, but his daughter can say all sorts of stuff that he just does NOT hear if he isn't looking at her or she isn't yelling. We are heading more and more toward this as we create more things to listen to on headphones. You will become desensitized to some of this in a few weeks, it is part of the adjustment. But you can also use your sensitivities to urge good manners like chewing with your mouth shut. My kids do this because the sounds makes me want to vomit. There have been times it actually made me vomit. House Rule is that if you do something that you know makes someone sick, you can't complain if they barf on you - and you get to do the cleanup. Of course I don't do it - well, not on purpose except once when all 3 were really really pushing the limit and I had the flu, but it made enough of an impression that all I have to do is ask what happens if you purposely make someone sick to their tummy. Lol I guess, but it just seems like natural consequences to me. It HAS led to decent table manners, though. [/QUOTE]
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