“What if raising truly empowered girls also means raising funny ones? What if we teach our daughters that humor is their turf — just as much as any boy’s?” Ellen McCarthy in WaPo: Want to raise an empowered girl? Then let her be funny. All kidding aside, my nine year-old daughter and I work on developing proper timing for different joke styles all the time. This is the first time one of my behaviors has been mentioned in an article on parenting correctly. It was hard for me not to lead with this story…