b-Calm Giveaway - Closed

This is one of those products that is great if your child is willing to use it. The b-Calm comes with instructions, audio player, one pair of over the head headphones, one pair of earbud style headphones, and a built in rechargeable battery. If your child will not tolerate wearing either type of headphones, you can plug speakers into the player. My son won’t tolerate the headphones. We tried numerous times. In the end, we plugged in the speakers and that worked well with him. The battery needs to be charged before you can use the player. This is easily accomplished by plugging it into your computer. It does come with the cord you need to do this.

After you have charged up the battery, and before you try to play the b-Calm, I recommend reading the directions. They are short and easy to understand. The reason I suggest this is because my husband tried to operate it without reading the directions. He could not get it to work, and complained and complained. I asked him if he had read the directions, and he gave me that look (you know the one) and continued to fiddle around with it to get it to play. I went and picked up the directions, read them, and immediately knew why he wasn’t able to get it to work.

The b-Calm has a “HOLD” switch on the side. This little switch does not turn it on or off. It is for disabling the buttons on the face of the b-Calm. This way, once you have it set to play one or all of the tracks, (each track is 30 minutes in length) you can turn the switch to the ON position and your child can push the buttons all he wants. Nothing will happen, unless your child discovers the little switch on the side. I didn’t have a problem with that. To turn the player on initially, you make sure that the switch is set on OFF, hold down the center button on the face of the player until you see it flash on.

There are 3 tracks on my b-Calm player, Summer Forest, Spring Rain and Tropical Beach. They have just added a new track to it called Sunday Drive. Each one is soothing and calming. For me, I loved using it as a way to relax. Putting the headphones on, laying down on the couch, and blocking out the noise in my house is a luxury for me. I use it for my son when he is doing school work. It helps concentrate on what he is doing. My son has extremely sensitive hearing. He hears everything. My husband and I can not even go outside to talk privately. He still hears us. (We do a lot of writing.) The b-Calm helps my son to be able to focus more on his task.

You can find out the technical and science behind b-Calm on their site. I just know that it works for us. I am happy to be able to do a giveaway for this player on my site. One b-Calm system will be given away to one of my lucky readers. Yeah!

This Giveaway will run from May 10, 2009 to May 15, 2009. The winners will be announced on May 16, 2009. This giveaway is for USA only. Below are rules for entering this giveaway. Good luck.

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