Parenting Through Laughter: The Medicine No One Talks About

There are a lot of tools parents are told to use when things feel hard—charts, consequences, scripts, plans. And while those absolutely have their place, there’s one quiet form of medicine that rarely gets talked about:

Laughter.

Not the forced, “let’s make this fun” kind.
The real kind.
The kind that slips in sideways and stays.

The kind that becomes an inside joke that lives in your house for years.