1st person limited narrator (me)
I rarely pop in on my work blogs like this, so I thought I’d introduce myself. I am a 30-year-old Caucasian female. I am married and have 2 very small children. I recently moved to the UK for my husband to get his PhD, which requires a little more cash than the typical stay-at-home mom makes ($0). So, I started writing for a sound masking company and find that like George Zimmer and his Men’s Wearhouse…
I’m not just a saleswoman, I’m also a client
Here’s where I’m going with all this- I may not work in a cubicle with tons of conversational and other annoying distractions, but I do live amongst attention-hungry (and therefore crazy loud) munchkins. This is a problem because living in the UK and not being wealthy means we are in a tiny flat and my 1 1/2 year old son sleeps in a loft that doesn’t have a door…oh, and the base of his stairs are literally adjacent to my 3-year-old daughter’s room. That is a formula for disaster.
This is where the I’m also a client part comes in. Whether it’s our own noise, the drunken neighbors enjoying a little Johnny Cash, the local football game, the Uni kids doing a little hazing, the stray dogs howling, the Guy Fawkes fireworks, or endless other, but typical, sounds, it’s simply never quiet or peaceful in our home. So, I have started using white noise in each of our rooms. The result is that most noises fade away, and those you can still hear are rarely ever loud enough to distract or awaken a sleeping child (or parent). I turn the kids’ white noise generators on pretty high and can keep my on lower so that I won’t miss an “I need you cry” in the middle of the night. (However, I do reserve the right to crank mine during my own nap time when necessary.) We even take them on trips or when we have to share a room (yikes).
So, whether you’re distracted at work, your kids can’t sleep, or you’re going on a trip, why don’t you give our free white noise generator a shot? You’re gonna like it, I guarantee it.
