For Children, A Good Booger Joke Helps The Medicine Go Down
by Lauren Kafka
Dec 25, 2017
3 minutes
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Dr. Howard Bennett creates elaborate Lego sculptures, juggles squishy balls during office visits and transforms exam gloves into water balloons, but it's his booger and fart jokes that crack up even his grumpiest pediatric patients.
"Kids of any age are curious about their bodies," the pediatrician writes in his latest book, The Fantastic Body: What, "especially if what they're learning about is gross! That's why kids laugh hysterically if someone tells a booger joke or lets out a big, juicy fart in class."
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