News Release

7 in 10 surveyed US adults believe humor can be an effective parenting tool, with those whose parents used humor being more likely to say their parents had done a good job and to report high-quality relationships with them

Peer-Reviewed Publication

PLOS

Humor in parenting: Does it have a role?

image: 

7 in 10 surveyed US adults believe humor can be an effective parenting tool.

view more 

Credit: Ketut Subiyanto, Pexels, CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)

7 in 10 surveyed US adults believe humor can be an effective parenting tool, with those whose parents used humor being more likely to say their parents had done a good job and to report high-quality relationships with them

###

Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0306311

Article Title: Humor in parenting: Does it have a role?

Author Countries: USA

Funding: The author(s) received no specific funding for this work.

Journal

PLOS ONE

DOI

10.1371/journal.pone.0306311

Article Title

Humor in parenting: Does it have a role?

Article Publication Date

17-Jul-2024

COI Statement

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert system.