... where family is the source of humor!

Family is one thing we all have in common! So, if answering "yes" to any of the above questions and seeking family or parenting humor, you're in the right place as Humor Is Relative contains over 100 humorous stories and essays!

Story submissions, by various writers & humor columnists, naturally share funny insights about parenting and-or children. This doesn't mean other family-based relationships escape becoming part of our growing archives of humorous stories!

Families aren't always picture-perfect but can be downright funny at times! Can you relate?

.Recent Family Humor Stories:

Many of us have a relative we remember as One Of A Kind - but, at the same time, we wouldn't have that person any other way but delightfully, and lovingly, unique. Laura penned and submitted a short essay, about one of her grandparents, that combined in a nice touch of sentimental reflections and humor.

Carol's mother had a different outlook on things. Sometimes, however, this differing opinion sometimes left the same mother feeling perplexed - especially if one of her children did something different than what Carol's mother may consider 'appropriate'.

Friends sometimes can be convenient to have around. Particularly those invisible kind that reside in our imagination but always there, close at hand, to take the blame for anything that goes wrong or, more importantly, gets broken. How many parents out there will enjoy the humor in Melinda's imaginary friend encounter?

Parents want to spend every minute possible with our children to create memories for later. On the other hand, parents sometimes like to have five to ten minutes, of alone time, to do simple things - without an audience. This can lead to a humorous quandary for parents ... as Erica shares in the following story!

For some people the teen years mark a period where they can pull practical jokes. Some more notable or original than others - but what can be more notable than being credited with a practical joke you did not do?

Hobbies generally help a person relax as they work toward a goal. Unfortunately a person's hobby may not help share that relaxing aura with others. For example, gardening as a hobby stressing out, versus relaxing, the spouse. Oh, heck, Terry tells it better in the following humorous story about her roto-tilling-plant-nurturing husband.

The mythical Tooth Fairy pays a child for the natural act of having one of their baby teeth fall out. As Ali shares, in her humorous story, apparently the Tooth Fairy is not immune to inflation and cost of living somehow factoring into how much a child may receive in return for placing a baby tooth under the pillow.

Everyone has a limit on how long to willingly put up with another individual's perceived bad or irritating habits. Especially when feeling you had dropped more than enough hints about finding that habit irritating. One morning Carol's father decided to not drop hints while, probably, optimistically thinking, "This will teach them a lesson or two."

Retro fashions are "In", retro as in brand new yet inspired by clothing of the early 1970s. Amazing how in photographs, of our younger years, we appear dressed totally hip and cool. Well, to our eyes at least. Many Humor Is Readers will relate to Audrey's story about one's past coolness and present day coolness factors - at least from their children's perspective.

Lazy hazy days of summer are ebbing away to the sounds of school buses once more rumbling up and down the streets. Amazing how quickly those three short months pass by - but, my oh my, the opportunities those days hold for children to create memories to look back upon as adults. Robert shares a humorous essay about his youth and baseball for readers of Humor Is Relative to enjoy!
This one is a doozy, so shared in five parts.

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
-- Laurence J. Peter Peter's Quotations

My family begins with me, your family ends with you.
-- Iphicrates

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When one of my children ask, "Did you have to tell that story?" I tell the child, "Yep! It was my chance to be the center of attention ... all thanks to you."-- My Mom

Think you have a funny story about your family, or moments in parenting, that others may enjoy? Review Humor Is Relative submissions guidelines & submit your story! Who knows, we just may like it!

Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it - and some of your spouse's family does too.
-- Anonymous

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In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.
-- Isaac Rosenfeld

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.
-- Stella Benson

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Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
-- Margaret Thatcher