Children’s Riddles: First Sign of an Adult Sense of Humor

What cake can you drink coffee from?  A cup cake.  (Sorry, coffee cake is too easy). What boats can you always buy at a reduced price?  Sale (sail) boats. A banana and an apple got married, but they argued all the time.  So the banana split. How many bees are there in a hive?  None, […]

Children’s Humor: The Preschool years

Adapted from P. McGhee, Understanding and Promoting the Development of Children’s Humor.  Published by Kendall/Hunt.  See Books by Dr. McGhee to order.  [Note: The previous article on children’s humor discussed developmental changes from birth to age three.  This article continues the discussion of age changes in children’s humor from about three to five years of […]

Children’s Humor: Infancy to Age Three

Adapted from P. McGhee, Understanding and Promoting the Development of Children’s Humor.  Published by Kendall/Hunt.  See Books by Dr. McGhee to order. Ring a round the Rosie, pocket full of Posies. Ashes, ashes, we all fall up! (My son, age 2 ½ years.) When parents think of their preschool children, the first image that pops […]