Sharing experiences of other parents and their perspectives is what parenting humor is about really. Reading this stuff just helps me cope, lighten up, laugh at myself and life, let things go, and not be so serious all the time!
PLUS, laughter is good for us physically, good medicine! - WHY?
Laughter puts our body in a relaxed state
It's a natural pain reducer, painkiller
It increases our ability to cope with pain (apparently increasing our threshold of pain up to 21 percent)
It massages our internal organs (internal jogging)
It exercises our facial muscles (uses 15 facial muscles to laugh)
Laughter stimulates the immune system (helps produce T cells) (From book by Liz Curtis Higgs)
Yes, raising a family and living life with redheads....wow... sometimes its funny, stressful, and challenging (even when yours are grown up). We all have our funny redhead stories! I've read that 'experts' say our minimum daily adult requirement for laughter is apparently 15 big laughs per day. (Toddlers laugh about 15 minutes each hour!)
So, I hope this collection of observations by other parents gives you and your redheads a lift and a laugh. (You might also enjoy my page "Love Is...(to kids)".)
Erma Bombeck
"When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out."
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"My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car."
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"Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown."
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"I have never gone to the bathroom in my life when a small voice on the other side of the odor hasn’t whined, 'Are you saving the bananas for anything?'"
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"Youngsters of the age of 2 and 3 are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub."
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"Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born."
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"Kids have little computer bodies with disks that store information. They remember who had to do the dishes the last time you had spaghetti, who lost the knob off the TV set 6 years ago, who got punished for teasing the dog when he wasn't teasing the dog, and who had to wear girls boots the last time it snowed."
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"Who, in their infinite wisdom, decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother."
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"Mother's words of wisdom: 'Answer me! Don't talk with food in your mouth!'"
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"All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with white carpet is one of them."
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"Most children's first words are 'Mama' or 'Daddy.' Mine were, 'Do I have to use my own money?'"
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"Have you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen? Three. It takes one to say, 'What light?' and two more to say, 'I didn't turn it on.'"
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"Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time."
More parenting humor....
Bill Cosby
"No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I’m not talking about the kids."
Dorothy Parker
"The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant – and let the air out of the tires."
Congressman Dick Armey
"The American Dream is not owning your own house. The American Dream is getting your children out of your house."
Okay...tempter tantrums are not usually a funny subject and how we deal with them varies. And true, we all have different ideas about what's funny regarding raising kids or considered parenting humor. But for me, this video is funny. I think it first aired on a US TV video show. Just had to include it. Makes me laugh. This little guy wasn't ignored or hurt...and he's no dummy. Just shows ya how smart these 'little people' really are (notice the dog)...
"A merry heart does good, like medicine But a broken spirit dries the bones" [Proverbs 17:22]
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Sharing experiences of other parents and their perspectives is what parenting humor is about really. Reading this stuff just helps me cope, lighten up, laugh at myself and life, let things go, and not be so serious all the time! 
PLUS, laughter is good for us physically, good medicine! - WHY?
