um, any, um, ideas, to stop, um, saying um?

[Rafiki31]

How about a cattle prod or an invisible fence? Every time she says it just give her a good zap!!!

Just kidding of course, but I think the recording it and playing it back is a GREAT way for her to see how annoying it sounds!

 

[bas71873]

I did this as a teenager..lol it should pass.

We have a man at work that says "and stuff" after every sentence. For example..He will say, "My wife and I went to the drive in and stuff. We had a great time and stuff." It drives us insane!

Hopefully, um, this is just a phase and it, um, passes!

HAHA. My step-grandmother-in-law ends all her sentences with "and all". Drives me BATTY!

 

[hucifer]

We charge my DS (now 10) a $1 every time he says the word or phrase he is to be eliminating. However, he only needs to pay once it hits $20. He mows the lawn and this is two weeks of mowing - so magical, the habit is ALWAYS broken before we hit the magic $20 mark. I think the highest he got is $17. Luckily, he is very money motivated!

This is a GREAT idea!

 

[Pooh67_68]

Off topic, but I can't watch Tyler Florance on food network because of how he talks (constantly with the ok). You would think that being he is on tv someone would have tried correcting him.

 

[Avalon_toon]

Try "Budweiser"

I think I might just try that!

 

[kristilew]

How about a cattle prod or an invisible fence? Every time she says it just give her a good zap!!!

Just kidding of course, but I think the recording it and playing it back is a GREAT way for her to see how annoying it sounds!

Maybe I can borrow the dogs' electric fence collars!

We've "root beered" all last night, and the appalling thing was that several times, she got to do it to me! And I didn't even realize the I was saying "um" myself! Gee, I wonder where she picked it up?

 

[Kickapoo Joie Juice]

My DDs' talk patterns are littered with "Jank" and "Snap".

I want to kill iCarly, it's all her fault.

The root beer idea is hilarous.

 

[MiniGirl]

It is such so common for teens and tweens around here (and elsewhere, too, I'm sure) that a local radio station used to have a contest every afternoon. They would take one male caller and one female caller and ask each one a question. The one who could speak the longest w/o saying "um" or "like" or "you know", etc, would win. The prize wasn't anything big -- maybe movie tickets or a coupon to a local ice cream parlor. It was amazing though that most callers could not get past 7 or 8 seconds.

 

[sbell111]

If a person wants to stop saying 'um', they should pause before speaking and think about what they want to say. That way, they don't have to pause in mid sentence and fill the space with 'um'. Also, they should work at being conscious of their 'ums' so if they do have to pause in midstream, they don't feel the need to fill the moment with 'um'.

 

[kristilew]

If a person wants to stop saying 'um', they should pause before speaking and think about what they want to say. That way, they don't have to pause in mid sentence and fill the space with 'um'. Also, they should work at being conscious of their 'ums' so if they do have to pause in midstream, they don't feel the need to fill the moment with 'um'.

Yep, that works great if a person wants to stop saying "um" We are talking about an 11yo whose mother wants her to stop saying um! DD is perfectly happy with her speech patterns!