Jokes are a special kind of folklore, in their content they are close to proverbs and sayings. They can be in rhymed or narrative form. Very often used in speech to give the story a humorous comic tone.
The real wealth of the people is their oral creativity. It began to accumulate and be passed down from generation to generation long before the advent of writing. We still use real treasures of folk wisdom in speech - jokes. These are small phrases that contain concentrated thought, sometimes of a humorous nature.
A lot of such phrases are pronounced when we invite a guest to the table. And the one with whom we often sit at the table becomes a true friend to us, judging by the phrase: "We ate more than one pound of salt with him." Folk jokes enrich our speech, make it interesting for the interlocutor, accurate, well-marked and graceful.
Instructive folk word
Our ancestors well understood that raising children requires the correct choice of words addressed to them. An adult's speech was supposed to catch the youth, attract their attention and evoke reciprocal feelings. The ancestors managed to concentrate the wisdom of generations in phrases that are alive and relevant to this day.
Proverbs sayings related to different aspects of a person's life. You envy the one who lives in a foreign land - "Don't leave your parental land - don't go away", you underestimate the enemy in battle - "Don't make your enemy a sheep, but make a wolf." This is how a simple, but such important worldly wisdom was brought up from a young age.
It was noticed among the people that a remark made in a playful, frivolous form affects a person much more effectively. Firstly, it is not so offensive, and secondly, it makes you think about your shortcomings. So there were jokes, jokes, which also touched on the most different sides of a person. “You are asleep, you are asleep, but you have no time to rest,” they said to the lazy man and the lazy person. And there is no need to scold and scold, everything is clear.
Fostering a child
Now books and the Internet open up wide opportunities for us to find rhymes, rhymed phrases that will be interesting to the kid and he will want to repeat them. And before from mouth to mouth they passed pestushki and amusements that were intended for babies. The joke poems were short and touched upon topics that a child could understand: a cat, a goat, a month, a grandmother, a wreath.
Competently composed, they developed the child's speech apparatus and now remain relevant and are often used by mothers.
And the children were entertained by nursery rhymes, jokes, composed with a good sense of humor and filled with positive. The creativity of our ancestors is rich and multifaceted, it touches the soul of an adult and a child, perhaps that is why it remains in demand in our time.
