My kids tell me a lot of jokes. Most of them don’t make an ounce of sense and occasionally, when I have been forced to participate in an excessive amount of knock knock jokes, I must admit, I’ve wondered if The Chinese Water Torture would offer a similar experience. It occurred to me awhile back that I have never met a kid who didn’t love to tell a good joke (or a bad joke – not bad like inappropriate, bad like . . . not funny), and perhaps it is simply that joke telling is an important developmental milestone every child must reach. So, I am, at least, happy to know my children are developing properly and reaching all necessary stages of life, but I am extra happy that one of them is now old enough to tell me real jokes. Today Abe asked me this:
Abe: A man went on a trip on Friday. He stayed for two days and then returned on Friday. How is that possible?
Me: I don’t know.
Abe: Friday was his horse!
Since I have never been capable of recalling good jokes (the only one I can ever consistently bring to mind is Q: What do you call a dog with no legs? A: It doesn’t matter, he still won’t come), I think I will now put Abe in charge of teaching his sisters a thing or two.
9 comments:
Kid jokes are not so funny, that's true. I've heard quite a few of those in my day, that's for sure. (Not from Addy of course, but from a whole lot of 2nd graders!) I must say though I actually enjoy those jokes on the popsicle sticks. Not that they're ever laugh out loud funny, but they are usually at least punny.
That's a good one! I'll have to tell it to my nephew who is also very into jokes right now.
P.S. I'm so happy you got a new camera, I love seeing all your pics... you are so talented!
I am not a patient joke mom. It is very much like the Chinese Water Torture - although I'm not sure what that is.... is that where older brothers drop water into your eyes, one drop at a time...? Because that's what my brother did and I always wondered if Chinese people really did that - for fun or for punishment. I haven't seen it on the olympics so it must be for punishment.
Joe loves all the "What do you call a man with no arms and no legs" jokes. He has now taught them to my older kids. The littler kids don't get them - they are still stuck on the knock knocks which I have no patience for. Sometime I will have to post all the "no arms/no legs" jokes. That would be funny. But maybe not coming from the wife of a physiatrist who deals with "no arms and no legs" on a daily basis. Yeah, maybe not so good.
So cute, at least they aren't made up like Con's. his last one
C- what do you call a kearnal (Colonel) nocked upside the head?
Me- Hmmmmmmm don't know
C- noccolonel get it like nocturnel
What!!?? Connor's joke is freakin' awesome. Send him to my house and you can have Goldie with her, "what do you get when you mix a dinosaur and a rock?" "A bird! HAHAHA"
that really is a good joke
he might be a genious
that's genius! for the smart people out there
niiiice...grace can occasionally tell a real joke now. the best was at the kindergarten talent show last year when a kid in the class that everybody thinks is so funny got up and told a very long, boring joke that had to punch line. yet when he was done, he just smiled at everybody and all the kids burst out laughing. i do think it is some social thing that is good for kids, even if i have to shut down the nonsense knock-knock jokes after each kid has had 15 or so.
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