Yesterday I was in the car with my kids while mom went to get something from a store, my 7 year old asked me to tell her a story. I don’t know any other stories that she didn’t hear from me. So I decided to do something – making monkey faces and asking them to imitate daddy.
Well….with my extra skin on my face I could stretch my face in every possible direction and then throwing in my tongue in between to make it look really goofy got them excited.
With their tiny faces, both girls were tried as hard as they possibly could and looking at each other goofy faces made them even more excited. If I had done the same thing in front of adults, for sure they would have thought that I was going crazy.
Little kids perception of humor is low because they have not seen the world yet. So they got to see something very explicit to find it funny or have to hear of something in the familiar context. Making them laugh helps them to develop 'sense of security' in you apart from keeping them healthy.
So go ahead and be as goofy as you possibly can because that makes your kids happy. I Remember watching a commercial of Ray Romano (of ‘Everybody loves Ramond’) where he is asking the dads to be goofy to be funny and I thought he was crazy then but now I know who is crazy.
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