By the preschool years, kids are humor veterans. After all,
they've been smiling and laughing for years. A reliable host of
tricks and jokes will crack them up, and even as preschoolers
get older, they continue to be amused by many of the things they
found funny as toddlers. The Importance of Humor Peekaboo will
still get a laugh, only now kids like to extend it into giggly
games of hide-and-seek. Expect your preschooler to continue to
enjoy using objects in silly ways — putting mittens on feet,
walking around the house in your shoes, or pretending a toy car
is a phone. But because a sense of humor is essentially an
intellectual and emotional skill, it grows as your preschooler
does. Kids are always finding new things funny while developing
a better and more sophisticated understanding of the world. And
they're eager to show off new ways to be playful. Humor is
something you can enjoy together, but it's more than just fun.
The benefits of a good sense of humor are well documented and
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