Laughter and Humor: Is there any laughter in Parenting? How to Find Humor and Laughter in Life

"....Laughter actually serves many healthy functions. Research has indicated that even those who imagine laughing or belly jiggling (mimicking laughing) experience huge drops in the stress hormone (cortisol) and experience increases in feel good brain chemicals such as endorphins, dopamine, and serotonin. This is powerful stuff! Humor is a high level coping mechanism and learning how to find humor in the mundane or in yourself can help you fight stress, improve mood, feel more connected to others, and be healthier.


Parenting can be challenging and stress levels often reach maximum capacity. I do find however, that kids have a way of injecting laughter, humor, and silliness into our lives. Sometimes we s are so serious we just can’t appreciate what a gift these little creatures are offering us. I bet if each of us stopped and spent twenty minutes running around like monkeys, pretending to be superman, or dancing to the wiggles that our energy would increase, stress would reduce, and our ability to attend to those other tasks would be so much easier.


If you have difficulty finding the humor in life or maybe just in today, here are some suggestions to help:


1) Cut out funny cartoons and tape them in places you often look…like on the mirror,

or in your calendar book.

2) Spend 30 minutes at the end of the day and watch a sitcom.

3) Make funny faces to yourself in the mirror

4) Talk to someone who makes you laugh

5) Read greeting cards at a store

6) People watch (sometimes people trip or do silly things like get lost in parking lots)

7) Read jokes on the internet

8) Think about how your body feels when it laughs, picture yourself laughing out loud

9) Participate in laughter yoga

10) Tickle play with your mate


I challenge you today to find laughter and humor in your lives. Reducing your stress helps you be a better parent. I’d love to hear what you do to put humor in your life. Tell me the family stories that make you laugh!..." (tabathastewart blog)

What is up with Humor?

All humor is rooted in tragedy.

Why Appreciate Poetry, Dance, Painting, and Music? Why Appreciate Art?

Dance, poetry, music, and paintings initiate processes that help people manage stress, reduce negative mood states and perhaps change behaviors.

(Read about the power of Touch Poetry right here)

Swedish scientists conduct various studies on the contributions of art to human lives and improvements.

Italian researchers reported in the journal of Circulation that blood pressure and respiratory rates can synchronize with music increasing during crescendos and coming down during pauses and decrescendos. Painting, music, poetry and other forms of art can be used as therapy for heart and stroke patients. Music helps prolong exercise by distracting patients from pain. Now you can understand why gyms play music while you work out!

Laughter as a Secret Energy Booster

Laughter as a Secret Energy Booster

By now, we all know about the benefits of laughing. Whether you were giggling, laughing or having deep-belly laughters, laughing is good for you. It releases tension, puts the challenges of the day in a healthy perspective.

In order to find or reconnect with your laughter, make sure you reminisce about the funny moments of your life. Go from the small details to the big ones. They will help get the energy booster you need. They will also unlock your creativity. Besides praying, thinking about a positive thing, you can read about laughing tips on this blog and others. The point is to be able to laugh again and increase your health.

"Inquiry Into Daniel Goleman's Social Intelligence, Raising Smart Children..." A Good Book for All Parents

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IQ vs. EQ: Interpersonal Skills for a Lifetime

Why Do Parents Need to Laugh with Their Children: Stress Removal and Bonding Are Among the Reasons

We can all appreciate a few good laughs. After all, it feels good to laugh. We laugh to get our measures of good oxygen into our lungs.

The Multiple Advantages of Laughter:

Studies have shown that laughter, even fake laughter releases endorphins, increases the immune system, relaxes muscles throughout the body, decreases stress chemicals such as cortisol, helps people forget pain, and is equivalent to internal jogging. Many scientists agree that laughter is a great stress fighter. You probably did not know that you were equipped with this great weapon.

So whether you have a funny laugh or whether you are known as a dork, do not stop laughing. You are buying precious oxygen for your body.

Start laughing with signing "Happy Birthday" using only the sylllable "ha."

LaughingHealthClub Promotes Deep Belly Laughs and Laughter as Medicine: Why Not Laugh Now?

Are you known to giggle your way at work, school and in life? You may be one of the few people who has found the success to a balanced lifestyle. Why worry? Find the solutions to your problems by finding funny books, movies, web sites, jokes that can motivate you to laugh. Awake and realize that you have been losing precious time to worries and concerns. You have been killing yourself on the inside. You have not been exercising your internal organs and giving enough good oxygen to your body.

It is time to laugh now! Tell stories to your family members, kids and co-workers. Find your true self in the process.

Laughter is a talent that all of us have. At one point or another, we laughed a lot. Why have let events take away our laughter? A good percentage of our laughter is in response to good humor. Did you know that we could create our own inventory of laughter?

Start thinking about using resources such as LaughingHealthClub whose aim is to present laughter therapy to you.

Start practicing nonthreatening laughter. Smile to diminish tensions in a parking lot for example. If you are walking past some mature people at night in a parking lot, make sure to establish eye contact and smile. That will make these people feel more comfortable. Fear will be out of the game.

Welcome to LaughingHealthClub!

Welcome to laughing health club! Our goals are to encourage laughter and make you laugh like children once more. While laughing, you will laugh your way all the back to health, success and happiness.

How many of us have lost our hidden secrets to laugh and take things lightly? Well, we hope that by giving you links to jokes, stories and articles, you will be able to find laughter again.

If you have some laughing tips for us, you can email us at [ eatfreshlocal at gmail.com ]. We will be starting this journey of self-rediscovery with you. And we hope that you will realize that we, as a nation, have lost our gift to laugh.

While doing so, we may laugh at ourselves a bit.

Feel free to invite us to talk to your business events. We have a lot of exercises and stories to tell your audience. Contact us at eatfreshlocal at gmail.com



You can always enjoy a few good laughs!