baby sounds vs kids

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I work in a daycare setting and what I have found works wonderful is to play a very upbeat cd while they are eating. The music is fun for them, and completely masks their sounds or at least serves as a counter-beat to help keep my nerves soothed. I highly recommend making sure that music is playing while children are eating. no one will ever know the real reason you're playing the cd. They'll just think you're nice and your sanity remains intact.

Tammy

To: Soundsensitivity Sent: Sat, May 15, 2010 12:05:05 AMSubject: Re: NON-triggers

Typing is not a trigger for me. Last night I noticed my sister clicking the computer mouse because I was in the same room concentrating on a book. I kind of told myself "Okay, you don't need another trigger. Just relax." And I did, so I think it's okay. I hope it doesn't turn into one!I agree with all the people saying they can easily put up with little kids and babies. I've been a nanny for years, and until the age of about 5, they could eat like absolute pigs and I'd even find it cute. But after 5, they could just make certain small sounds (a tiniest slurp whenever they sipped a drink, especially if repeated) and I'd have to leave the room and start shaking with anger.In the group description it says that many 4S sufferers actively seek out loud, constant sounds to drown out triggers. I'm definitely in this camp. I love loud music at festivals and bars, I always have to have the TV or radio on if I'm home alone, or eating with

someone. If I'm eating out with a friend I try to get them to a food court or busy restaurant. Once I was staying in a hostel with a dorm of 10 or so in my room. The burglar alarm at the office building next door had been set off, but it was a Friday night, so there was no one there to turn it off. We slept through that for two nights - or at least I did. Most people complained about how hard it was to sleep. Some of them moved to other hostels because they couldn't sleep a bit. It wasn't a 'nice' sound, but I had better sleeps those nights than the nights where it was dead quiet and I could pick out random little sounds.>> I'm glad you like typing too. It's rare to find ones of us who do > However, the

clock ticking....shudder! I can't put two thoughts in a straight line when there is a ticking clock near me.> > Tammy> > > > > ________________________________> > To: Soundsensitivity > Sent: Fri, May 14, 2010 3:43:34 PM> Subject: NON-triggers> >  > I thought I'd mention that like Tammy, I too find typing soothing. Also bird song which I know many of you hate.>  > I really don't want to offend anyone who has these as bad triggers, but I have really positive associations with these sounds. (I get winter blues really bad, so birdsong is like the break of spring; I like typing noise, possibly as it reminds me of

the secure environment of my home, where my husband does a LOT of typing).>  > Also clock ticking; takes me back to sleeping over at my grandparents' home as a child, it was a lovely warm sanctuary, nicer than home.>  > To be clear, I have plenty BAD triggers: anything related to people eating/breathing, and I believe they're all traceable back to family triggers as a child.>  > But perhaps looking for a key to the differences between us, including what triggers us, can help us find the cause.>  > Soo>  > > > From: Tammy Case > Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 1:58 AM> To: Soundsensitivity@ yahoogroups. com > Subject: Re: Re: Does anyone remember their onset of 4S?> I agree that Detest for repetition is a perfect descriptor. The repitition is what drives me absolutely insane,

especially for my visual triggers. A visual repetition is enough to have me trying climb the walls and screwing my eyes shut. It can even be something as stupid as someone applying lotion and they rub and rub and rub and rub....aaaarrrrgggh hh! > But, in some strange way, I find repetition in a just a few selective things to be very soothing to me. I could listen to someone typing all day long. I know we have people on this list who have in the past expressed hatred of typing but I find it one of the most soothing sounds in the world to me. > > Tammy> > Â >