I am afraid of transmitting my stutter to my son

Are you afraid of passing on your stutter to your child? If the idea of ​​reading bedtime stories to your little one intimidates you, then don’t suffer in silence, you can do something about it right now.

I have a friend who didn’t want to have children because she stuttered. She was terrified to pass on her stutter. When she talked about her, she profusely blocked out her words, at her children’s bedtime she changed the words of her stories, which must have been extremely difficult for her-how do you read The Gruffalo if you stutter in the letter ‘g’?

Stuttering is frustrating to say the least, it is a problem that many people do not understand. A friend used to say “I’m here and you’re safe with me, so just say the word” while I had the all too familiar feeling of the muscles in my throat tightening and then no air coming out. But don’t be helpless with me. Don’t give up (you wouldn’t be reading this if you had), listen to that little part of you that is frustrated or angry and that is the voice telling you to do something about your stutter.

don’t fight anymore

You can unlabel it as “yours” to begin with. Don’t claim your stutter and wear it as a disability badge. I was excused from answering the phone when I was younger because I stuttered – what? Not anymore! You are not your stutterer. You make it bigger by highlighting the fact that you are afflicted by this evil stuttering monster. So befriend him. If you fight it, you will not defeat it and by making friends you are not giving up, you are strengthening yourself.

What can we do with stuttering?

Lower your voice and away from the throat area – up there is where you block and stutter, so lower it and focus on the sound coming from the chest.

Every time you speak, begin deeply and assertively, begin how you want to, as if you are a force in the world of speakers. Exaggerate too much when you’re alone.

Most importantly, breathe. Stutterers don’t breathe. Inhale deeply and from the chest and exhale in the same way (mentally, of course). Learn to breathe from the chest. Rib breathing is a wonderful technique to learn that gives your speech a solid foundation.

When you get to that dreaded word, the one you normally have a hard time pronouncing, don’t stop voluntarily babbling. Swipe across the previous, non-dreaded word and you’ll have to say the dreaded word, for example, if you want to say ‘that’s my orange’ and you think you’ll stutter on ‘orange’, swipe the ‘th’ sound of ‘that’ -th——–at’s my orange.

It can significantly reduce your stuttering and doing it for your kids could very well be the boost you need. The above methods are the beginning of many techniques available to people who stutter. Trust me, you can take that first step to be positive with your speech and move on. Just put one foot in front of the other and you’ll get there.