An 80-year old woman told me this great story when I asked
if anyone could share a time when they used laughter and/or humor to cope with
a difficulty.
When Adele was a child she had done something that was
considered misbehaving and she knew she was going to get a physical punishment
for it. Unfortunately this was in
the days when corporal punishment to children was considered perfectly
normal. Knowing what was coming,
she ran upstairs to her room, opened her dresser drawer, and pulled out every
pair of little panties she had, putting them all on to pad herself against her
father’s blows. Then she went
downstairs to receive her spanking.
But when her father saw what she had done he burst into
laughter. And laughed so hard he
never punished her at all.
I love this story because it shows that all it took was a
laugh for this man to come into balance enough that he no longer needed to hit
his child. Truly magic.
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