Even after you do your best as your father, you still find that your baby goes to bed or feel disabled? If you never wondered what it might miss in your relationship with your child, experts have a surprisingly simple answer: humor.Yes, that’s right. A new study suggests that laughter is not only the best medicine but also a great tool. According to a study headed by researchers from PEN, humor is an effective upbringing tool. They found that the use of parents or caregivers influenced the quality of their relationship with children. They found that 71.8% of the study participants considered humor as an effective child raising strategy. More than half reported that their parents used humor as a child, and most of these people planned to include humor in their own upbringing. The conclusions are published in the PLOS ONE magazine.
“Humor can teach people cognitive flexibility, relieve stress and promote creative solutions and stability. My father used humor, and it was very effective. I use humor in my clinical practice and my children. The question became how you can constructively use humor?” Benjamin Levi, Professor of Pediatrics and Humanities at the PEN Medical College and the Senior Authors of the Study, the statement said. The researchers noted that while the aspects of humor and games were studied in different conditions and in the development of children, the use of humor in raising children was not officially studied. “There is an interesting parallel between businesses and raising children who are hierarchical. The business has shown that humor helps reduce the hierarchy, create the best conditions for cooperation and creativity and diffusion tensions,” said Lucy Emery, who was a student at Peng College.“While parents and children relationships are more loving than business relationships, stressful situations happen when raising children. Humor can help to diffuse that tension and hierarchy and help both sides feel better in a stressful situation,” Emers added.
This study became the original step to learn how people see relationships between humor, their experience of imposing and their experience of raising children. The study can help understand how humor can use constructively and what types of situations that risk for humor use.
To understand the connection between humor and raising children, they interviewed 312 people between the ages of 18 and 45. More than half of the participants said they were raised by people who used humor, and 71.8% agreed that humor could be an effective education tool. Most of them said they also plan or use humor to fight their children. Among the participants whose parents used humor, 50.5% reported good relations with their parents, and 44.2% thought their parents did a good job.Unlike this, only 2.9% of those whose parents did not use humor, reported good relations, and only 3.6% believed that their parents succeeded in education.“I hope that people can learn how to use humor as an effective tool for raising children, not only to spread tension, but also the development of stability and cognitive and emotional flexibility in themselves and model it for their children,” Levi said.
