How to Use Riddles to Build Your Childs Verbal Humor Skills
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adult years. Some kids will get so turned on to humor that they will on their own be .... his stamp collection. He told her he found her very attractive ...
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How to Use Riddles to Build Your Childs Verbal Humor SkillsPage 1How to Use Riddles to Build Your ChildsVerbal Humor SkillsPaul E. McGhee PhD www.LaughterRemedy.comAdapted from P. McGhee Stumble Bees and Pelephones: How to Develop a PowerfulVerbal Sense of Humor Kendall/Hunt 2002. To order call 3024787500.]The previous article noted that children become intellectually capable of understandingthe double meanings that form the basis for most riddles at six or seven years of age.Since this new form of verbal humor automatically occurs when children achieve theprerequisite level of cognitive (intellectual) development your child will get hooked onriddles for a few years regardless of whether you make an effort to nurture this skill ornot. The reason for making the effort to play with your child the kind of gamerepresented in this article is that most kids simply memorize riddles and tell them overand overwithout building their own skills at playing with language!This is the best time to get them started creating their own double meaningswhile thewhole idea is so exciting to them. Without this kind of practice children becomeadolescents with limited spontaneous verbal humor skills. And if the languageplay habitis not wellestablished by midadolescence it is very unlikely to be present during theadult years.Some kids will get so turned on to humor that they will on their own be motivated to create their own wordplay humor. But these kids are the exception. The children who are most likely to build their verbal humor skills through childhood and adolescence arethose who have parents or other family members who consistently model verbal humorday after day month after month. These kids generally have this skill as part of theirpersonalitypart of their way of interacting with otherseven if they occasionally use itduring the preadolescent years. The constant early exposure to verbal humor supports thecapacity to actively use humor when the interest in doing so emer ...
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