A Parent's Guide to Volume
- Creepy silence
- Peaceful silence, like a cotton ball landing on felt
- Light background chatter
- Normal conversation
- Normal conversation with pleasant ambient background noise
- Attempted conversation with semi-distracting background noise
- Attempted conversation with raucous background noise
- Two simultaneous attempted, yet unsuccessful, conversations, plus raucous background noise
- Multiple unsuccessful and fragmented conversations, plus familiar background noise, plus disconcerting unknown thudding or screeching
- Keep all components of #9, but add an air horn, a Kidz Bop concert, an intermittent fire alarm, continual whining, and a child who cannot spell anything requesting you to "help" as she painstakingly writes a lengthy story while sitting in an adjacent room. Bonus points if you're taking a work phone call.
Disclaimer: Items 2, 3, 4, and 5 are purely fictional categories for parents.
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Hahahaha I cannot stop laughing at the fact that my parents' house still constantly falls into noise categories 7-10 when me and my brother are visiting, even as adults.
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing how we fall back into our old sibling/family roles when reinserted into our childhood homes, isn't it?
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