How many times do you laugh each day? I think of myself as a fairly happy person who laughs easily, yet when I stop and try to count how many times I laugh each day, it doesn't add up to very much. Research has shown that kids laugh up to 400 times a day - for no reason! That's the important part: for no reason! They just find life funny, or maybe they find themselves funny. Whatever, they laugh easily at any and every thing - until it is trained out of them by us: the adults all around them, whether it be parents, teachers, or other figures of authority in the home, school, church, etc. Think about it. Kids love to make noises, including laughter, that they think are great but drive us crazy and so we find ourselves asking them to stop, tone it down, be quiet, or telling them it isn't appropriate, even yelling at them when we are stressed. And eventually, they learn to control their natural laughter and noise-making instincts until they become like us, adults who are lucky if we laugh 15 times a day! WOW! What happened to 400?