Psychology of laughter

Teachers of young children have always been aware of the crucial importance of play for learning, but humor also makes significant contributions to young children development. It builds vocabulary and both pre-reading and reading skills, helps solidify the child's kowledge of the world, supports creative thinking, builds social interaction skills, helps to cope with stress throughtout the adolescent and adult years.
It's important to know how the sense of humor changes during life and developing. There are two basic principles to keep in mind. One is that children's sense of humor reflects their new intellectual achievments.Humor, laughter is basically a form of intellectual play- play with ideas. Children have built- in tendency to have fun with newly developed skills- both physical and mental. Further, humor is also the funniest during the months (maybe even a year or two) after the time it can first be understood.
Lauphing first appears when children acquire a solid enough understanding basic features of their world to know that features are wrong or imossible.There are few stages, that shows what is funny for kids.The first one is called laughter at the attachment figure.You can find infants laughing at any unusual behavior of a parent, for example, waddling like a penguin or making silly faces.The second stage is treating on object as a different object.Kids start treating object as if the object were something else, for example, holding a shoe and saying" Hello,daddy".The third stage is misnaming objects or actions. For example, saying wrong names: cats will be called dogs, mammy will be called daddy. One more stage is pre- ridlde stage: transition period. Most chilren become interested in the verbal humor of older children around them.They hear other kids ask puzzling questions and then give what appear to be very arbitrary answers that are followed by laughter. When children tell these jokes, they typiclly laugh as soon as they tell them.
There is no period more delightful than the preschool years.
It is advisable to enjoy your own child's budding sense of humor and enjoy their enjoyment.