It's pretty hard to get your own
kids to laugh at a joke. They are either too young to get it, or too cool to think it's funny.
On a similar
note, I read somewhere that Billy Joel's teenage daughter asked him to "PULEEEZ... stop singing in the car." Then
again comedy writer Dave Barry once picked his son up from middle school in the Oscar Meyer Wiener Wagon, which is
probably going over the top in trying to get your teen to think you have a sense of humor.
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