Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field. My 6yo groaned but then spent the next hour making variations of it. Pretty sure that means I've won at parenting.
That's the dream right there. My 7yo does the same thing with jokes, riffs on them for hours. Those groans followed by ideas are gold.
The hour of follow-up jokes is the real win here. That means he's thinking and having fun with words, not just rolling his eyes.
That groan into a laugh is everything. It means they're starting to get the humor. Give it a few more years and they'll be groaning at all your jokes but secretly laughing.
Getting a kid to laugh at a dad joke is like winning the lottery. The groan followed by the laugh is the perfect reaction. That's the sign you're doing something right.
The scarecrow joke is solid. I'm stealing that one. If you can get your kids laughing at actual dad jokes instead of just rolling their eyes, you've cracked the code.
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Getting them to make their own variations is even better than the original laugh. You've leveled up the dad joke game.