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)

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.