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Pretending to be a Robot Has Stopped Me From Yelling at my Kids
Maybe it’s time for silly parenting
Everything is a bit serious right now. You might be dealing with kids who cry more easily, or who don’t want to face their school work. Perhaps you don’t feel much like facing it either! I’ve been homeschooling and working from home for a while now, so it’s not such a big adjustment for us, but we miss our friends and family. It’s been a struggle to laugh as much as we used to.
You can try to cheer up with stand-up comedy shows and funny YouTube clips, but it’s in our social interactions with others where we laugh the most, not when our faces are illuminated by a screen.
Laughter is not just the best medicine
For a long time, it was thought that kids laugh more than adults. There was a fact floating around that kids laughed 300 times a day. It seems that idea is a myth.
In truth, how much we laugh appears to be more about how much time we spend interacting with others, rather than our age.
Some studies even suggest adults laugh more than children. We don’t lose our sense of humor when we become parents. Some of us, in fact, become sillier!
