Jokes are like brain gymnastics. Thanks to them we don’t take ourselves too seriously and therefore we feel better

How to joke around with a child? (Tatiana Jachyra / Kulczyk Foundation)

What makes you laugh?   

When was the last time you told jokes at home? Laughing together not only connects people, but also reduces the level of stress hormones, activates the production of endorphins, i.e. the hormone of happiness, and relaxes muscles. In other words, it improves both our psychological and physical well-being. So if you have any favourite funny stories, photos or memes, find them and watch them again with the whole family. Perhaps you also have some funny memories together? You can rank your own funniest stories or pictures. 

Create an opportunity to laugh   

A good idea to create an opportunity to have fun and laugh together is, for example, organising a dance of joy, which stimulates the spirit and the body at the same time. Turn on some lively, cheerful music and invite the children to play. Show with your whole bodies how a person behaves when they are happy. How are your heads happy? And how are your backs happy? Hands. Legs. Knees. Right hand fingers. And now the left foot. As you go through the different stages of the exercise, make sure that the children express themselves through the parts of the body that are being listed.

 

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Summary

All source materials are prepared by the team of Kulczyk Foundation’s Education Department in cooperation with teachers and experts – pedagogists, psychologists and cultural experts – and verified by an experienced family therapist Kamila Becker. Kinga Kuszak, PhD, Professor of Adam Mickiewicz University, Faculty of Educational Studies, provides content-related supervision over Kulczyk Foundation’s educational materials. All materials are covered by the content patronage of the Faculty of Educational Studies of Adam Mickiewicz University.

The article was published on 01.04.2020 on the website of Instytut Dobrego Życia (Good Life Institute)

Authors: Dorota Szkodzińska (Kulczyk Foundation) and Anna Woźniak (Instytut Dobrego Życia)