[Edling] Knock Knock. Who’s There? Kids. Kids Who? Kids Tell Terrible Jokes.

[Francis Hult]

The Atlantic

Knock Knock. Who’s There? Kids. Kids Who? Kids Tell Terrible Jokes.

There are a few different reasons kids make these weird, often wildly unfunny jokes. According to Allyssa McCabe, a psychology professor at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell who specializes in children’s language development, little kids’ jokes are a bit like babies’ babbling...Similarly, McCabe says, slightly older children—often around preschool age—learn the rhythms and formats of jokes without really understanding how humor is supposed to work, resulting in nonsense that has the shape of a joke but isn’t, really.

Full story:
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/01/why-kids-tell-weird-jokes/579472/

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