Kids Who Laugh: How to Develop Your Child's Sense of Humor

by Louis R. Franzini

While some children are born with an innate sense of humor, for most kids, humor is a learned behavior. Kids Who Laugh is the first book to examine the psychology of humor in children and explore the many benefits that this characteristic has to offer, including self-confidence, coping skills, creativity, self-control, and more. Most important, it offers the actual tools that parents can use to give their child the gift of laughter.

Genres: Parenting

192 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2001

Reviews

[Selmoore Codfish]

Short book. Most of the material is about how to engage your children in age appriate humor.
There is a short chapter on the theory of humor. Also, the book has a three-fold strategy for engaging (your) children. 1) model the behavior, 2) reward all humor attempts, 3) (more encouragement).
The theories seem very simplistic.
I like to take a wholist view of childhood development. This book jumps right in and assumes that your children are ready for it.

[Laurie]

Eh. This book is pretty dated, and there is not as much attention on kids under 1 year old as I had anticipated. It's an OK kindle book buy because it's only $1.99, but it's not nearly as inspiring as I wanted it to be. The author writes the chapters like individual essay papers, with intros and conclusions. Not really my style I guess.

[Cortney]

Has anyone ever heard of this book or author? I would love to know if it's worth the read...I think it sounds like a great topic!

[Mary]

Not that helpful.