Humor at the Center

"In the Beginning. . .  The very, wicked meanie monster saw the child care director laughing and enjoying her job and said I must make this stop.  The meanie monster held a meeting with all the other meanie monsters to delegate responsibilities.  The other meanie monsters formed committees, and soon, task forces to study ways to stop the child care director from having so much fun.  Fear spread amongst the ranks of the meanie monsters that if her humor was not soon stopped it could spread from the land of children and infect other workplaces.  One alarmist meanie went so far as to suggest that if humor was not stopped even accountants might be infected.  This could never be.

"And a plan was created and put into place.  A being was made real that was so horrible that even the meanest meanie was afraid.  And the being was given a name: Licensing Lady.  And the Licensing Lady was sent forth to do battle with the child care director..."

This is how Jerry Parr's article, "Humor as a Tool in the Workplace," which is included in the Beginnings Workshop Book, Child Development II, opens.  To see what follows, you can read the entire article on the Exchange website.

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