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Most of us love someone who has a great sense of humor. Those who love to laugh help us to laugh. When life starts getting us down we turn to those who can laugh at it for support and help. We know that laughter is the best medicine, and that those who laugh often get through problems in a much easier way. As these facts prove, a good sense of humor is a very important part of a person’s personality. It is both a tool that helps us to survive and to get friends. We probably could not survive without it. Beyond this, it is part of what makes life great and worth living. So if a good sense of humor is so essential, how can it be encouraged in your child? Can you help a child gain a good sense of humor like you can teach them to play the piano, or catch a ball? This is a difficult question to answer, and partly because children have different personalities from each other. Some kids are naturally more quiet than others. They might be shy or serious. This is not a problem with their personality. Don’t try to force a child to laugh or have a good time. You need to respect the individual that your child is. However, there might be some good ways to help your kids laugh, and to laugh more and more. This could help them to develop a good sense of humor and to have more fun in life. Here are a few tips that could help you to develop your child’s sense of humor:

1. Find out what your children think is funny and then repeat it. A child has a particular sense of humor just as you do. Discover what makes them laugh. Is it jokes or physical humor? Is it verbal or visual? Once you have determined this try to develop this characteristic in your child by exposing them to more of this type of humor. <br /><br />
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Humor is the best medicine for the ills of life. We have all heard these sorts of sayings. In life we all find that they are very true. Life is simply too hard and absurd not to laugh at it sometimes. It is extremely difficult and serious, which is why we need to take it a little less seriously sometimes. Some people think that laughter is laziness, but those of us who have been through difficult times know that laughter helps you to get a fresh perspective on life. It can actually help you to confront a difficult situation. Because laughter is such a good practice, we would all like to see our children laugh a bit more. But how do you encourage a good sense of humor in your child? Encouraging a good sense of humor is a slow process that requires patience. Children have their own unique personalities and traits. You can’t just alter them at will or as you please, but you can help to encourage the sense of humor that is already there. This can be done through a number of different methods, all of which depend on the child and on their age. A very important age for the development of humor in a child is when they are in elementary or grade school. This is when they are forming social attachments and a personality. In many ways it will be the personality that they take with them through the rest of their lives. Because this is such an important time in their development you need to encourage their sense of humor appropriately. Here are a few good ideas for developing your elementary age child’s sense of humor:

1. Kids in the first few years of elementary or grade school will be mostly interested in simple jokes and slapstick. They will probably like fairly stupid physical humor. This is okay for their age group. You probably don’t want it to go too far past the first couple of grades, but for the time being it is fine.<br /><br />
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         <pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 07:34:38 -0800</pubDate>
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A sense of humor is as important as any other part of a child’s education. We teach our children math, science, and English, but do we teach them how to laugh at life? Why don’t we teach them this critical skill? A sense of humor is critical because it helps us through the difficulties of life. Some people think that the only way to deal with life is to be serious about everything. However, people who say this don’t realize that humor is a very good way to deal with the really serious problems in life. It is not a method for escaping life, but for dealing with it in a positive and productive manner. Life is simply too difficult to pass through without laughing at it. Your children also need to develop a good sense of humor if they are going to roll with the punches of life. As with so many things, your children learn how to behave and react by watching their parents. They know what is funny and what is not funny according to what their parents find funny or not funny. There are lots of methods for encouraging a sense of humor in a child. You will find the best methods through experimentation and practice. But what if your child starts to laugh at the wrong things? Most children don’t know what is really appropriate and what is not when it comes to humor. They might not intend to hurt someone’s feelings, but they might anyway if they don’t know what lines they should not cross. So how do you encourage your child to have a good sense of humor, and by good I don’t just mean that they laugh at everything, but that they laugh at things that are appropriate to laugh at?<br /><br />
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         <pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 07:27:01 -0800</pubDate>
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          <title> the funny side of life, the bright side of life, children
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Someone in life will tell you that you should look on the bright or funny side of things. This is probably some of the best advice you can get. It is impossible to know exactly what life will bring and what it will surprise you with. Most of us will face some real difficulties in life, and for some of us those difficulties will simply be too much for us. If we can look on the funny side of life these problems don’t seem so bad. They fade away and feel like memories or bad dreams. It is amazing what a little positive thinking can do for a person in a bad spot. Even if the worst of all possible nightmares were to become true, you would still be able to laugh at your situation. Given that this ability is so important to life, what can you do to help your children see the funny side of life? Should you force them to laugh when things go wrong? Certainly not. However, there are some methods you can employ to help them develop this very important ability. 
First, you need to laugh in the face of adversity if you expect your children to do the same. A child only learns to do what their parents do. If you do not look at the funny side of life your children will not either. Overly serious parents tend to lead to overly serious children. When something goes wrong and you can think only of how horrible things are, your  children will also think this way. Attitudes pass from generation to generation and are difficult to change. However, if you can laugh when things are tough your children will develop this reflex.

Second, try to help your children feel safe and secure. It will be hard for kids, especially the younger ones, to look on the bright side of things if they never feel secure. When things are chaotic for a child they will probably feel much worse anxiety than an adult. Reassure your children and make sure that they know that everything is okay in your family. <br /><br />
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Most people love to laugh. We know that it helps our spirits and it provides a good relief from the anxieties of life. Without laughter life would probably seem helpless if not impossible. How would we deal with all the absurdity and difficulty without laughter? A good sense of humor is one of the central keys to living a healthy life—at least mentally. With a good sense of humor you can roll with the punches and see that life is not so bad even if it is hard. Some people might say that this is an excuse for not taking life seriously, but having a good sense of humor does not mean that a person does not take life seriously. Sometimes the best way to take life seriously is to have some fun with it so that it doesn’t get you down. If you take it too seriously you might end up not being able to deal with it. Because we know that a good sense of humor is very important in life, it is probably a good idea to encourage this sense in our children. While most children have a good sense of humor, some of them are more serious than others. A child’s personality is a difficult thing to change, and you probably should not try to change it too much. Children are wonderful because of their different personalities. This does not mean, however, that you cannot encourage certain parts of a child’s personality. All children will have some sort of sense of humor, you simply have to find it and help it to grow.

But how can someone encourage a child’s sense of humor? What can be done? The process need not be overly complicated. There are several methods that can be used to encourage a child’s sense of humor, and a great one is through games. 
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         <pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:19:55 -0800</pubDate>
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We all love to laugh. It brightens the darkest of days and makes the rain clouds go away, if only for a few moments. Laughter is the very thing that can help us to make life a little bit easier. It makes us feel and see the bright side of life when it is hidden in shadow. Life is simply too hard and too serious for us to take it seriously. We have to take things much more easily. We have to know that life is serious but also that we can’t deal with it in a serious way unless we can laugh at it now and then. This might seem like a paradox, and some people might say that it is simply a way to excuse our laziness, but the rest of us know that this is not the case.  A good sense of humor is actually a fairly serious thing. Because of this we know that our children need a good sense of humor as well. If children do not have a good sense of humor they will find it hard to cope with all the difficulties of life. The ups and downs of trying to get by can simply be too much for a person if they do not laugh. So how will you encourage your child’s sense of humor? How will you help them to laugh at adversity? These are not simple or easy questions to answer. For one thing, every child is a unique individual with certain interests and dislikes. One child might have a particular sense of humor while another child might laugh at entirely different things. One of the first things you need to do to encourage your child’s sense of humor is to find out what type of sense of humor they have. When you have done this, consider some methods for encouraging that particular type of sense of humor. One method is through creative exploration.<br /><br />
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